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Cant run vistas Paint in windows 7

robie392

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    • Okay, I'm running Windows 7. It comes with a snazzy new MS Paint(I ABSOLUTELY DESPISE IT), it lacks the hot key commands(and EVERYTHING else) I came to rely on in NT Paint. Vista paint was very cool. I'm getting the "Unable To Create Blank Document" error when I try to run Vista Paint in Win 7, even with its support files. Could some please tackle that? So far Win 7 is cool, but i need vistas paint or no more spiriting for me =_=

    Thank you for any help!
     
    Zet

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    • Can't you just learn to adapt? I mean, we adapted to playing video games pretty damn fast and other programs, so why not adapt to the new paint?
     
    twocows

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    • Here is the version of paint included with the current release of ReactOS. It has hotkeys and looks nearly identical to XP's and Vista's paint versions; plus, it's actually legal to redistribute, unlike that XP version linked two posts prior. I haven't been able to get it to print, but if you really need to, you can use Windows Image Gallery or even 7's Paint.
    Zet said:
    Can't you just learn to adapt? I mean, we adapted to playing video games pretty damn fast and other programs, so why not adapt to the new paint?
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    He doesn't want to; seems a valid enough reason for me. Besides, if it's really lacking keyboard shortcuts like he says, that's a huge strike to efficiency; navigation by keyboard is many times faster than navigation by mouse.
     
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    shot571

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    if by hotkeys you mean ctrl+c and stuff. i have windows 7 home premium and it does have the. sorry if im wrong an stuff but i think thats what you mean.
     

    .little monster

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    Zet said:
    Can't you just learn to adapt? I mean, we adapted to playing video games pretty damn fast and other programs, so why not adapt to the new paint?
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    He might be like me, you cant. The new paint has brushes that blend with the colors around it. I cant do the things I need if that occurs.

    https://i50.tinypic.com/ilf2ue.png

    The Red block is from Windows Seven's paint, see how it blends? I need it to do what happened in the blue block, no blending.

    So, I had to downgrade. >:
     

    Tyrannosaurus

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    The new paint works fine, but I do miss some of the features, like the transparent pasting and whatnot.
     

    robie392

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    • twocows said:
    Here is the version of paint included with the current release of ReactOS. It has hotkeys and looks nearly identical to XP's and Vista's paint versions; plus, it's actually legal to redistribute, unlike that XP version linked two posts prior. I haven't been able to get it to print, but if you really need to, you can use Windows Image Gallery or even 7's Paint.

    He doesn't want to; seems a valid enough reason for me. Besides, if it's really lacking keyboard shortcuts like he says, that's a huge strike to efficiency; navigation by keyboard is many times faster than navigation by mouse.
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    I love you sorry but you just made my year Ive been looking for something similar for so long, i was thoroughly freaking out cause my game hasnt moved at all since i got win 7 =D its different but only the icons and i can adapt to that, you are pro!
     

    DAHstra

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    I liked Vista Paints ability to reduce the viewscreen smaller so that other items could be pasted onto that screen and you could move them around. I liked the HotKey rotation.

    I got XP Paint to run fin in Win 7, but Vista Paint is a different animal. :-(
     
    doesn't matter

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    twocows said:
    Here is the version of paint included with the current release of ReactOS. It has hotkeys and looks nearly identical to XP's and Vista's paint versions; plus, it's actually legal to redistribute, unlike that XP version linked two posts prior. I haven't been able to get it to print, but if you really need to, you can use Windows Image Gallery or even 7's Paint.

    He doesn't want to; seems a valid enough reason for me. Besides, if it's really lacking keyboard shortcuts like he says, that's a huge strike to efficiency; navigation by keyboard is many times faster than navigation by mouse.
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    You are a true bro, thanks a lot man.
    Zet said:
    Can't you just learn to adapt? I mean, we adapted to playing video games pretty damn fast and other programs, so why not adapt to the new paint?
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    Because for pixel artists, Windows 7 paint makes it quite difficult to adapt. I tried adapting and it wound up killing any motivation I had. It's really a crappy program compared to it's previous iterations.
     
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