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minus-squareQueen HawlSera@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·1 year agoHuh… I thought they discontinued this program.
minus-squaredangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 year agoWho told you that? MS Paint is basically a critical windows utility.
minus-squarejadegear@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoIf you remove mspaint.exe then Windows will refuse to boot. It’s true, I knew a guy!
minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoJokes aside you can boot Windows without Windows at all. By that I mean you can boot Windows NT without Win32.
minus-squareLyrl@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoThey did. I guess the community outcry was so loud even Microsoft had to heed it and reverse course.
minus-squareAnders429@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoI thought so too. I remember looking for alternatives for when it would be removed completely.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoPaint.NET has been my simple go to for over a decade. I’ve never got on with Gimp or Photoshop. Paint.NET is more like Paintshop Pro used to be.
minus-squareCorkyskog@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI honestly didn’t realize I had been installing it… I went to boot paint.net and was surprised I couldn’t find it on my work computer… that’s how critical it is… or how often I don’t change personal hardware
minus-squarekamenLady.@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoI read that WordPad also was being discontinued, in the same article stating the same about MS Paint iirc
Huh… I thought they discontinued this program.
Who told you that? MS Paint is basically a critical windows utility.
If you remove mspaint.exe then Windows will refuse to boot. It’s true, I knew a guy!
Jokes aside you can boot Windows without Windows at all. By that I mean you can boot Windows NT without Win32.
They discontinued Paint 3D
They did. I guess the community outcry was so loud even Microsoft had to heed it and reverse course.
I thought so too. I remember looking for alternatives for when it would be removed completely.
Paint.NET has been my simple go to for over a decade. I’ve never got on with Gimp or Photoshop. Paint.NET is more like Paintshop Pro used to be.
I honestly didn’t realize I had been installing it… I went to boot paint.net and was surprised I couldn’t find it on my work computer… that’s how critical it is… or how often I don’t change personal hardware
I read that WordPad also was being discontinued, in the same article stating the same about MS Paint iirc