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Contents 1 If paint.exe was deleted... 2 Fair use rationale for Image:Mspaintvista.png 3 Former names for Paint 4 Another MS Paint Secret. 5 "Strange Brush" - Now a bug in Vista 6 Photo edit 7 Color box moving 8 WikiPaint! 9 Nickname 10 Vista Updates 11 Fair use rationale for Image:Painttoolboxvista.png 12 Future development 13 Dos Version? 14 Which version of MS Windows didn't have the paint software?

[edit] If paint.exe was deleted...

Is it possible to download it off the net? I know it's possible for windows 95, but I haven't been able to find anything for XP... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kooolcow (talk • contribs) 01:52, 6 May 2007 (UTC).

You haven't been looking in the right places - I don't think they're discussed here.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 04:45, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Mspaintvista.png

Image:Mspaintvista.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Former names for Paint

At one time you could buy Microsoft Paintbrush for DOS by itself; it was even bundled along with the Microsoft Mouse at one time. --Edwin Herdman 19:16, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Paint was a new application with Windows 95. Previous versions of Windows included Paintbrush; a different application with a different codebase (licensed from ZSoft in part). Much of the history section in this article is just plain wrong. --82.7.199.50 14:51, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

It would be good if the article could clarify the relationship between Paint and PC Paintbrush. It would seem that calling the 3.1 version Paintbrush would be impossible were it not for involvement between MS and ZSoft, but memory is murky and references are few--Lionelbrits 03:43, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another MS Paint Secret.

See when you use the Line tool while you hold down the Shift key, you can draw "straight" lines. horizontal, vertical, and diagonal. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by PNiddy (talk • contribs).

That's not really a secret- it's quite well-known. Sorry :-) Fourohfour 19:02, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Not to me! 99.230.152.143 01:05, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Strange Brush" - Now a bug in Vista

When I click "just to the right" of the small brush in Vista's paint, I get an "insufficient memory" error message. So maybe it was a memory bug in the XP version which couldn't repro in Vista because of the improved memory error handling? 80.176.249.204 18:05, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I managed to reproduce the effect on XP by selecting right next to the smallest square brush size, rather than the round one, in other words on the second line... I think it just has to lose focus. If I select to the right of the round one, I get the same error. Doing the same for the diagonal brushes does the same, but the line is thinner. All in all the easter egg is quite dumb and quite possibly buggy.--Lionelbrits 03:38, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

This bug is a result of no paintbrush highlighted. I use the Windows Vista Version and whenever I click JUST TO THE RIGHT of any "brush", the one previously highlighted is no longer highlighted. Thus the computer can't complete the task of painting if there is nothing to paint with. Zippo Prower of DrunkDuck.com 10:31 PM September 22 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.168.119.66 (talk) 02:32, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo edit

Can I place a photo edit here? Mallerd 19:45, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Well I have been very naughty, and done just that! Perhaps Wikipedia would like to display an exhibition of MS Paint Artwork. I would love to put up an educational Video Instruction Screen Capture (say 5 to 10 minutes) with something like TechSmith 'Camtasia Studio 5' Perhaps do the entire "Fairest Daughter of heaven and waves" or "Birth of Venus", by Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Fillipeppi) c. 1486 from The Florence Galeria delgi Uffizi. Speed draw it in ten minutes? (about five hours in real time) It would be a pleasure to undertake it.(Alastair Carnegie (talk) 00:23, 11 February 2008 (UTC))

[edit] Color box moving

I moved the color box somehow. How do I get it back over there? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.15.231 (talk) 00:42, 8 September 2007 (UTC) Click on it and move it. It's easy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.230.152.143 (talk) 16:34, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiPaint!

http://s160.photobucket.com/albums/t172/racooon/th_Wikipediafinish.png I made this picture of the Wikipedia Globe using Paint. I don't know how to upload images though, so feel free to save a copy and upload it. Racooon 08:54, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

This should probably belong to WikiMedia Commons and should be appropriately licensed parallel to the main WikiPedia logo. -Mardus 16:25, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

I'll add that image there ASAP.--Megamanfan3 (talk) 13:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Done. It is found here —Preceding unsigned comment added by Megamanfan3 (talk • contribs) 13:51, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nickname

Paint being the ephemeral default drawing program for oft-vilified Windows operating systems has gotten a telling nickname — that of MsPain :-) — http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=349765&cid=21254307
-Mardus 16:27, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vista Updates

I'm a longtime user of MS paint and I wondered if anyone thought It'd be a good idea to make 2 tables of the default pallet colours in MS Paint before Vista and in Vista. I'll go through and grab the Hex codes if someone wants. I'm not sure how to do the table though. --The Lone Bard (talk) 04:18, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Edit: threw this together quickly. Someone else can probably do a better job or clean it up.

Windows 95 through XP Paint

#000000

#808080

#800000

#808000

#008000

#008080

#000080

#800080

#808040

#004040

#0080FF

#004080

#8000FF

#804000

#FFFFFF

#C0C0C0

#FF0000

#FFFF00

#00FF00

#00FFFF

#0000FF

#FF00FF

#FFFF80

#00FF80

#80FFFF

#8080FF

#FF0080

#FF8040

Windows Vista Paint

#000000

#464646

#787878

#990030

#ED1C24

#FF7E00

#FFC20E

#FFF200

#A8E61D

#22B14C

#00B7EF

#4D6DF3

#2F3699

#6F3198

#FFFFFF

#DCDCDC

#B4B4B4

#9C5A3C

#FFA3B1

#E5AA7A

#F5E49C

#FFF9BD

#D3F9BC

#9DBB61

#99D9EA

#709AD1

#546D8E

#B5A5D5

--The Lone Bard (talk) 05:31, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Painttoolboxvista.png

Image:Painttoolboxvista.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:06, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Future development

Has development of this program ceased due to Paint.NET? Will/Has Paint.NET replaced Paint? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson (talk) 00:14, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

You realize that Paint.Net isnt made by Microsoft right? it has nothing to do with Microsoft Paint. --The Lone Bard (talk) 02:58, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

I know, it was made by some students. But the intro into the Paint.NET article "Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program included with Windows" makes me believe that the program comes with every copy of Windows, perhaps with Vista. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson (talk) 04:20, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Nope. I believe what that means is that it's a replacement for the Microsoft Paint Program (which is included with windows). Maybe someone should edit that sentence because it does seem a bit confusing. --The Lone Bard 16:57, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Alright. But it would be a good idea to completely replace the old Paint with Paint.NET. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson (talk) 16:47, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dos Version?

I seem to remember using a Dos version of MS Paint on an Amstrad XT.. is this older or newer than the windows 1.0 version? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.88.45.5 (talk) 23:54, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Interesting, but do you have proof? We cannot add that information until there is valid proof that there might be a DOS version of MS Paint.--Megamanfan3 (talk) 13:38, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Which version of MS Windows didn't have the paint software?

It is said in the introduction of this article that almost all versions of Windows have had the Paint software built in to the operating system. I think all of them had Paint, so we should remove the word "almost". If I'm wrong, just ignore what I said here, but I strongly believe there was no version of Microsoft Windows without it.

Of all of the Windows OSes I've seen or used, all of them had Paint included as a standard.--Megamanfan3 (talk) 13:39, 14 May 2008 (UTC)