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Thread ID: 20574	2002-06-08 03:42:00	MSPainf de-fritzed, it was a bug folks!	Guest (0)	Press F1

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53115	2002-06-08 03:42:00	For the kind persons who responded to my earlier post re MSPaint problems, I now have the answer. It is a bug in Paint that is activated by using Paint to open bitmaps with particular attibutes, or by setting the image attributes too large for an existing bitmap. In my case it was an incompatible bitmap image I imported from a Word document. The cure is simple, as all solutions are once you know the answer. You open any normal bitmap image (it may take some time for the program to finally start and you have to OK the memory & resources warning along the way), go to image/attributes select default and click ok. Save the file with a new name and exit Paint. Next time you open Paint all will be back to normal. See? It's easy when you know how! Although I'd love to claim the credit, this is not original thought! I conducted a very long and frustrating search with Google before I finally stumbled onto this answer in one of Microsoft's archives, lurking behind closed links and other assorted dead ends. Q129545 takes you right to it once you have actually been there. I am now left with one weird consequence: The Paintbrush Icon now opens MSPaint instead of Paintbrush, even thought the icon target points directly to Pbrush.exe. I am not even going to think about sorting that, Pbrush is headed to the recycle bin! I've made an executive decision to cut my losses and get a life. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Guest (0)
53116	2002-06-08 04:23:00	That's great Billy, glad to hear that you fixed it and so easily too -- once you knew how! Thanks for sharing the solution with us, someone else is bound to need it someday. ;-)	Guest (0)
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