Paint and restore

[roger]

We lost paint's tool box. No matter how many times we
checked or cleared the show tool box check box it simply
is not there. I did a system restore to an earlier date,
opened paint and the tool box was there. I had other
applications start acting flakey so I undid the restore
point. I had to uninstall and reinstall personal
firewall program after that restoration. I did serches
for paint files at each point in the time line. Search
results for file names and size and date of modification
and access were identical at both restore points. I down
loaded and installed shareware file recovery software
thinking my daughter had deleted a file associated with
the tool box. The software identified a multitude of
deleted files. Non of which I could determine were what
I was looking for. Next I decided to restore the system
to the earlier date and make a copy of the Paint
application. return to the latter restore point and
reinstall the application. The computer will not restore
to any previous point. I get the message: "unable to
restore your computer to the selected restore point. No
changes have been made to your system. Norton antivirus
detected no infections. Suggestions?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

1) To fix Paint: Close any/all instances of MSPaint. Then start/run regedit,
navigate to this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Applets\Paint

Hightlight (click on it) that key and delete it. Close the registry editor
and reopen Paint.

2) As for System Restore, once it is bolloxed up, you need to stop and
restart it. Doing this loses all existing restore points. Start/run
services.msc, locate the SR service and doubleclick it. Click the stop
button, then set the startup type dropdown to disabled. Click apply/ok, then
reboot. Reverse the steps to restart it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone