Windows 7 - New to Vista, Need Help with Open With

I just got a new HP with Vista a month ago. I feel like such a newbie...well, I am. I used IE for 4 years and had a lot of confidence...not anymore.

Well, first, I wasn't sure where to post this...so if it needs to be moved, please do so.

I have a website and do a lot with graphics. My Nvidia card has a problem, I spotted that right off, but I'll get to that later.

Here is one of my problems. I download a lot of graphics to a specific folder to unzip. I then like to open them with one of two programs to see if it's a keeper, either PSP9 or Animation Shop (AS). Here's the glitch. Whenever I open a graphic into AS, it opens another AS window with another window copy of the AS program. It doesn't do this with PSP, only AS. So I have to delete AS each time I use it for the Open With option, or I wind up with a dozen AS versions in the Tool Bar.

I'm laughing as I type this because it really is funny, but it's a darn pain in the rump too. By the way, I am not a whiz bang on the computer, just sort of able to keep it from self-destructing. So any help you can give me in plain English would be greatly appreciated.

Oh, in addition, I did learn through research about the additional folder in Programs, (x86) for older 32 bit programs, so my PSP and AS are in the proper folders.

I'm sure I probably messed up something in the first week or so of use, I just don't remember a lot I did...I'm recovering from spine surgery and sometimes feel like I've been in lala land.

Hi JustJJ, sorry to tell you this but you are in the wrong forum to answer this question, try the Windows Vista Forums

Thanks Mr. Grim. I followed a link from there to here thinking this was for folks that had vista and IE7.