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re: MS Paint & losing internet connections
Saturday, February 1, 2003 at 6:38 pm
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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:
>
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Applets\Paint
>
>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
>






Written in response to:
re: How to get MS Paint functional again (Sru571: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 at 11:03 am)


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