ms paint

[Sully]

I know this is probably a little off topic of photos, but
I was wondering if anyone could give me advice with ms
paint. It was running perfectly...then I go to open it
and it can't even open because "...it has encountered a
problem and neesds to close." I have no clue what
happned. I use ms paint for like evrything! Making icons,
making my own desktop stuff, editing photos, game
modding...and the list goes on, but please, i need help.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Go to the control panel, add and remove programs folder, on the left click
"Add/Remove Windows components" Double-click accessories and utilities, double-click
accessories, un-tick Paint, okay out. Go back and reinstall, have your Windows disk
ready.

 

[David Shiflet [MS]]

This is a bug that will be fixed in SP2. What has happened is that some
registry keys under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Paint
have somehow gotten out of sync.
If you open regedit to that key, you'll see various keys named
"General-Bar0", "General-Bar1", etc. In the "General-Summary" key, you'll
see a value called "Bars". You can fix/work around this bug by setting the
Bars value to the number of "General-Bar#" keys you have. For example, my
machine has 5 keys, numbered General-Bar0 through General-Bar4, so my Bars
value in General-Summary is 5.