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PAINT won't work:
Suddenly My MICROSOFT PAINT program won't work, Even
though it is part of WINDOWS XP, doing a "Search" will not locate it. My BELARC ADVISOR, My NORTON ANTI-VIRUS, My SPYBOT SEARCH & DESTROY and My GO-BACK will not help. I get the same old 'canned' response; "Paint has encountered a problem and needs to close." Whenever I click to see what data that error report contains, I get the following; Error Signature AppName: mspaint.exe AppVer: 5.1.2600.1106 ModName: mfc42u.dll ModVer: 6.0.8665.0 Offset: 00017103 The following files will be included in this error report: C:\DOCUME~1\default\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8D.tmp.dir00 \appcompat.txt How do I get My PAINT back? I have came to rely on many of it's features when using it with My PHOTO SUITE and other photo editing programs. |
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PAINT won't work:
Try this, go to the control panel, Add or remove programs, on the left click
add/remove Windows components, double-click accessories and utilities, double-click accessories, if Paint is ticked, un-tick it, okay out. Reboot and go back and re-tick Paint, you may have to have your XP disk ready. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/getting_started.htm "Ron" wrote in message ... Suddenly My MICROSOFT PAINT program won't work, Even though it is part of WINDOWS XP, doing a "Search" will not locate it. My BELARC ADVISOR, My NORTON ANTI-VIRUS, My SPYBOT SEARCH & DESTROY and My GO-BACK will not help. I get the same old 'canned' response; "Paint has encountered a problem and needs to close." Whenever I click to see what data that error report contains, I get the following; Error Signature AppName: mspaint.exe AppVer: 5.1.2600.1106 ModName: mfc42u.dll ModVer: 6.0.8665.0 Offset: 00017103 The following files will be included in this error report: C:\DOCUME~1\default\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8D.tmp.dir00 \appcompat.txt How do I get My PAINT back? I have came to rely on many of it's features when using it with My PHOTO SUITE and other photo editing programs. |
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PAINT won't work:
Got to the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs and select Windows components.
It should be one of the icons on the left side of the Add Remove Programs Dialog. When that window opens double click Accessories and Utilities another dialog should open. Double Click Accessories. The next dialog should have a checkbox for paint at the bottom of the list. If it is checked, uncheck it and click OK on all the dialogs to uninstall it. Repeat the process to reinstall it. If it was unchecked just check it to install it. A second option would be to restore you computer to an earlier date when it was working. Let me know if that works, Ed "Ron" wrote in message ... Suddenly My MICROSOFT PAINT program won't work, Even though it is part of WINDOWS XP, doing a "Search" will not locate it. My BELARC ADVISOR, My NORTON ANTI-VIRUS, My SPYBOT SEARCH & DESTROY and My GO-BACK will not help. I get the same old 'canned' response; "Paint has encountered a problem and needs to close." Whenever I click to see what data that error report contains, I get the following; Error Signature AppName: mspaint.exe AppVer: 5.1.2600.1106 ModName: mfc42u.dll ModVer: 6.0.8665.0 Offset: 00017103 The following files will be included in this error report: C:\DOCUME~1\default\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8D.tmp.dir00 \appcompat.txt How do I get My PAINT back? I have came to rely on many of it's features when using it with My PHOTO SUITE and other photo editing programs. |
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PAINT won't work:
Hi Ron,
If reinstalling paint (as Mary has suggested) doesn't help, this fix usually works: Close any/all instances of MSPaint. Then start/run regedit, navigate to this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre nt Version\Applets\Paint Hightlight (click on it) that key and delete it. Close the registry editor and reopen Paint. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby! http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org "Ron" wrote in message ... Suddenly My MICROSOFT PAINT program won't work, Even though it is part of WINDOWS XP, doing a "Search" will not locate it. My BELARC ADVISOR, My NORTON ANTI-VIRUS, My SPYBOT SEARCH & DESTROY and My GO-BACK will not help. I get the same old 'canned' response; "Paint has encountered a problem and needs to close." Whenever I click to see what data that error report contains, I get the following; Error Signature AppName: mspaint.exe AppVer: 5.1.2600.1106 ModName: mfc42u.dll ModVer: 6.0.8665.0 Offset: 00017103 The following files will be included in this error report: C:\DOCUME~1\default\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8D.tmp.dir00 \appcompat.txt How do I get My PAINT back? I have came to rely on many of it's features when using it with My PHOTO SUITE and other photo editing programs. |
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PAINT won't work:
Hi,
had the same problem as Ron and did what you suggested by deleting the registry file and all now works fine. Thanks -----Original Message----- Hi Ron, If reinstalling paint (as Mary has suggested) doesn't help, this fix usually works: Close any/all instances of MSPaint. Then start/run regedit, navigate to this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr ent Version\Applets\Paint Hightlight (click on it) that key and delete it. Close the registry editor and reopen Paint. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby! http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org "Ron" wrote in message ... Suddenly My MICROSOFT PAINT program won't work, Even though it is part of WINDOWS XP, doing a "Search" will not locate it. My BELARC ADVISOR, My NORTON ANTI-VIRUS, My SPYBOT SEARCH & DESTROY and My GO-BACK will not help. I get the same old 'canned' response; "Paint has encountered a problem and needs to close." Whenever I click to see what data that error report contains, I get the following; Error Signature AppName: mspaint.exe AppVer: 5.1.2600.1106 ModName: mfc42u.dll ModVer: 6.0.8665.0 Offset: 00017103 The following files will be included in this error report: C:\DOCUME~1\default\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8D.tmp.dir00 \appcompat.txt How do I get My PAINT back? I have came to rely on many of it's features when using it with My PHOTO SUITE and other photo editing programs. . |
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