Processing Multiple Files Problem

Elements 5.0, Windows Vista
Under FILE I see there is a "Process Multiple Files" function.
I have gone there and tried to process several images... setting it to "Convert To JPEG Medium quality" and processed.
My thought is that, same as "Save To Web", it would have taken a 100k jpg and made it say 40k for the web as it would if you used "Save To Web" and saved with JPEG Med Quality there.
But it doesn't, the file size is near exactly the same after processing. I have hundreds of images to process at a time and I can't possibly do save to web one by one by one.
Any idea what is going on? How to make it work? Maybe it's not supposed to do that?
Suggestions on how to automate a batch of alot of images for save to web compression?

Check out (free) ImageMagick
-- it has a
wealth of options for image conversion.
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