re: MS Paint & losing internet connections
Saturday, February 1, 2003 at 6:38 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Maxwell
(1 messages posted)
I too unsuccessfully tried re-installing XP to get mspaint.exe working again, but
doing so resulted in my losing all my dial-up internet connections! These could not
be re-entered with the New Connection Wizard, since Connect Using a Dial-up Modem
was gray-ed out. The solution to the problem is at http://support.microsoft.com item
329441 --I used Microsoft's workaround method of deleting two registry keys, since
without the internet connection I could not easily use their method of reinstalling
Service Pack 1. I suspect Paint stopped from something on the Web, though a scan
doesn't find any virus.
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002 at 11:03 am, Paps wrote:
>I don't know if this problem is still affecting you, but here is the fix:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q185501
>
>To resolve this problem:
>
>1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then press ENTER.
>
>2. Locate and click the following registry key:
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>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Applets\Paint
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>3. Right-click the registry key, and then click Delete.
>
>This registry key is rebuilt the next time that you start Paint.
>
>
>I myself tried reinstalling XP, which didn't help at all, then I stumbled across
>this support thread and it did the trick.
>
>Take care,
>
>- Paps
>
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