I got the Win98 version of paint and could not see any difference with
the XP version.
Andy
WinXP's version of PAINT will change your working area WITHOUT asking you
and without your permission, by simply 'assuming' you want it changed.
very irritating when it is done to a carefully selected cropping, to have
all that effort suddenly undone.
If you bring a larger than your working space picture over using prt scrn,
or alt-prt scrn, or have saved an image on the ?? and then go to place it
onto your open app of PAINT;
WinXP PAINT version assumes you want a larger work space to accomodate
that larger image and will automatically enlarge your work space to accept
the larger image, and you will have to 'recrop' to get back to your
original workspace size.
Win98 PAINT version does NOT assume you wish to change the work space size
and will ASK you BEFORE you drop it in whether to enlarge the work space
or whether to leave the work space the original size. Then, dropping the
image in by either enlarging or cropping excess.
Very irritating 'improvement' to PAINT. And, to me, rather arrogant on the
part of MS SW people. At the time of discovering that 'major flaw', no one
had a solution or a workaround, so I simply brought over the Win98 PAINT
version and solved the problem.
Regarding NOTEPAD, in WinXP vs Win98's Notepad, don't quite remember the
details, but the wraparound constantly fails to operate properly, very
irritating, too. so had to go back and bring over the Win98 version of
Notepad. Yes, there are other text editors that do everything I want, I
have them, use many of them, but sometimes Notepad is faster, and just
handy. Remember, I said run your Win98 on a PC with a 10MHz clock? I see
it everywhere. Playing chess, the image motion dramatically lags behind
the position of the cursor.
WINDOWS EXPLORER changed, too, but have no fix for that. ...as I'm looking
about in the left panel and expand a folder trying to remember where an
errant file has gone and deciding on where it should then be placed, as I
move to a different folder, WE keeps un-expanding that previous folder,
even though I had desired to have that folder left expanded. Very
irritating, because I WANT them left expanded when I'm in that type of
search and place mode. It's like having a spring loaded drawer snap shut
in your face every time you you go to a new drawer, folder! So, I have to
take concentration AWAY from my search task to 'coddle' quirks in the
Windows Explorer tool.
