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Mspaint help "Failed to create empty Document"

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    The title says it all, Mspaint "Failed to create empty Document" can somebody please help me?
     
    First what did you do? and give me an error code if any, cause that may be a bug or you may have a load of docs already and you have no more room.
     
    Oh yeah, sorry. i just tried to open it and got the error, I'ts been happening for a couple of days now. Just try and open it and there goes the error.
     
    Did it ALWAYS happen since it started to apear? or just most of the time?
     
    Always, yeah. It always worked before, but suddenly it just stopped. I can still create New Bitmaps with the Right mouse button and open it that way but it's so tediously annoying :'(
     
    Ok, at this point an antivirus would be good just in case.First go to your computer.if you got it on the correct format, You will see a Machine icon on the very top left of your list. one collum to the side you will see a name that changes with computer being used, for example, since i use an acer laptop, the name would be ACER (C:), and a row down it would be ACERDATA(D:), now look at free space further to the right, you need to have at least a few GBs, more than 3 is good, if you have ANY NUMBER without GB, You have verry little room, and the room that MsPaint projects take overcrowds the file. if this is notthe case then run your Anti-virus and hope it's not paintAIDS XD
     
    206Gb on Partition_1 (C: ) and 21.4GB on Recovery (D: ) Running a scan now...
     
    This happens for some other programmes (Wordpad for one). Make sure, you're not exceeding your RAM, there is enough space in the TEMP folder on the hard drive and that automatic updates are enabled. Try a Diskcleanup/defragment too.
    There are probably other solutions however.
     
    I'll start the Defragment and Disk Cleaner now, even though it does it automaticlly every saturday morning... The only thing i, if it was a RAM thing then why would the New Bitmap thing work and that not work? (I deleted all the TEMP files)
     
    Wow... a bunch of people are giving somewhat weird solutions... O_o

    Somehow Paint may have gotten corrupted. You can try this: Go to Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components. When it loads, uncheck Accessories and Utilities and then click Next and wait until everything's done uninstalling. Then redo the steps again, except this time check Accessories and Utilities and then let it finish the process. Hope this helps ;)
     
    nrox653 said:
    Wow... a bunch of people are giving somewhat weird solutions... O_o

    Somehow Paint may have gotten corrupted. You can try this: Go to Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components. When it loads, uncheck Accessories and Utilities and then click Next and wait until everything's done uninstalling. Then redo the steps again, except this time check Accessories and Utilities and then let it finish the process. Hope this helps ;)
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    Thanks, it sounds like it'll work and I know exactly how to do that... On XP. I'm now running Vista, can you or someone explain how to do that in Vista please?
     
    Hiroshi Sotomura said:
    I've described the equivalent method below, but Accessories is no longer a basic Windows feature that cannot be restored by that method.
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    Hiroshi Sotomura said:
    For the purposes of whether you want to turn any other features on and off, you would go to Control Panel Home, under "Programs", hit "Uninstall a program". On the Tasks panel, there's a UAC-protected function called "Turn Windows features on or off".

    But, Accessories isn't a feature that can be turned off.
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    Yeah, I got to the Turn on and off Windows thing before you said and I couldn't find accsessories. Thanks though. ¦¬D
     
    Okay, I'm reviving this old topic. I'm running the new Windows 7 Release Candidate. It comes with a snazzy new MS Paint, but it lacks the hot key commands 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. Anyone feel like tackling that? :) So far Win 7 is cool. I'd like to migrate the programs I love to it before I abandon Vista some time next year. I have a dual install on my laptop of Vista and Win 7.

    Thanks for any help!
     
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