MS Paint - Undoing edits to pictures after saving possible?

I have a couple of photos which were accidentally edited (spray painted over
and drawn on with MS Paint program). The modifications were saved, however,
I noticed when the image is viewed as thumbnails in windows explorer, the
pictures displays as if it was never altered. But if I open the actual
image, the modifications show up. Since I can view the original unaltered
image as a thumbnail, I would like to know if I can somehow restore the image
to it's original condition. Is this possible? Thanks.

Try right-clicking on the picture and choose "Restore previous versions"
from the context menu.

HTH,

Dale

"fm78" <fm78@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a couple of photos which were accidentally edited (spray painted
>over
> and drawn on with MS Paint program). The modifications were saved,
> however,
> I noticed when the image is viewed as thumbnails in windows explorer, the
> pictures displays as if it was never altered. But if I open the actual
> image, the modifications show up. Since I can view the original unaltered
> image as a thumbnail, I would like to know if I can somehow restore the
> image
> to it's original condition. Is this possible? Thanks.

Because its built for Vista, it was first introduced in Server 2003, and XP
Pro had it, but you had to be connected to a Windows Server 2003 network to
take adavantage of it.
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"Julius" <Julius@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> This seems to work only in Windows Vista
>
>
> "Dale" wrote:
>
>> Try right-clicking on the picture and choose "Restore previous versions"
>> from the context menu.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> "fm78" <fm78@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E9A66669-4A76-4A55-A9E9-55850B8A043B@microsoft.com...
>> >I have a couple of photos which were accidentally edited (spray painted
>> >over
>> > and drawn on with MS Paint program). The modifications were saved,
>> > however,
>> > I noticed when the image is viewed as thumbnails in windows explorer,
>> > the
>> > pictures displays as if it was never altered. But if I open the actual
>> > image, the modifications show up. Since I can view the original
>> > unaltered
>> > image as a thumbnail, I would like to know if I can somehow restore the
>> > image
>> > to it's original condition. Is this possible? Thanks.
>>
>>

You have to enable the Volume Shadow Copy, Click Start > Control Panel >
Administrative Tools > Services >select Volume Shadow Copy > Play.

Of course, it has to be setup on the Server to work in conjunction with
client.
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"Julius" <Julius@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Many thanks for the explanation, in fat I do have XP pro running but I do
> not
> know how to get connected to a Windows Server 2003 network... any other
> idea
> of how to "undo" the changes?
>
> Someone told me there's en embebed thumbnail in the jpg file where changes
> in the actual picture where not saved (do not know how is that possible)
> therefore the original image is only in that thumbnail. It seems to be
> possible to extract the thumbnail but quality will be so poor that woul
> make
> the picture useless.
>
> What do you think about that?
>
> Julius
>
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote:
>
>> Because its built for Vista, it was first introduced in Server 2003, and
>> XP
>> Pro had it, but you had to be connected to a Windows Server 2003 network
>> to
>> take adavantage of it.
>> --
>> Andre
>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry
>> "Julius" <Julius@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:1E181EBA-220A-451A-AC65-6B3C6945513F@microsoft.com...
>> > This seems to work only in Windows Vista
>> >
>> >
>> > "Dale" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Try right-clicking on the picture and choose "Restore previous
>> >> versions"
>> >> from the context menu.
>> >>
>> >> HTH,
>> >>
>> >> Dale
>> >>
>> >> "fm78" <fm78@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:E9A66669-4A76-4A55-A9E9-55850B8A043B@microsoft.com...
>> >> >I have a couple of photos which were accidentally edited (spray
>> >> >painted
>> >> >over
>> >> > and drawn on with MS Paint program). The modifications were saved,
>> >> > however,
>> >> > I noticed when the image is viewed as thumbnails in windows
>> >> > explorer,
>> >> > the
>> >> > pictures displays as if it was never altered. But if I open the
>> >> > actual
>> >> > image, the modifications show up. Since I can view the original
>> >> > unaltered
>> >> > image as a thumbnail, I would like to know if I can somehow restore
>> >> > the
>> >> > image
>> >> > to it's original condition. Is this possible? Thanks.
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>