MS Paint problems

[peterhedge]

Have been struggling for months with MS Paint opening painfully slowly. If I
open now it takes at least 10 minutes to open hard drive goes mad and every
application is affected you may as well go and make dinner while it sorts
itself out.

Then over the past couple of weeks Office Picture Manager started to do the
same thing but after looking at this forum found that by deleting the
associated .cag file hey presto its back to normal.

Is the problem the same in MS paint and if so where do I find its associated
catalogue file?

 

[nass]

RE: MS Paint problems



"peterhedge" wrote:

> Have been struggling for months with MS Paint opening painfully slowly. If I
> open now it takes at least 10 minutes to open hard drive goes mad and every
> application is affected you may as well go and make dinner while it sorts
> itself out.
>
> Then over the past couple of weeks Office Picture Manager started to do the
> same thing but after looking at this forum found that by deleting the
> associated .cag file hey presto its back to normal.
>
> Is the problem the same in MS paint and if so where do I find its associated
> catalogue file?

Your problem can be the cause of many things:
1- Not enough Disk Space
2- Not enough/Bad RAM
3- Bad/Damaged Applications
4- Blowated and infected system with malware and viruse and you need to do
your house cleaning!

Error Message: Mspaint Caused an Invalid Page Fault
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185501

Not Enough Memory or Resources
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q129/5/45.asp

<Optional if the above did help>
Run a thorough scan by doing the following steps:
1... First, try to clean up your caches, Internet files and delete cookies
by doing this:
Click Start >> Control Panel >> Double click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options.
On the IE properties windows you will see these Tabs:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs |
Advanced
Under General Tab clear your History, Internet Files and Cookies.
Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
Then click on Programs Tab and click Manage Add-Ons and Disable all non
Verified Add-Ons (You should Renable them later one-by-one and see the
culprit and update it or remove it.
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256
Scan for malware from here:
SuperAntispyware - Free
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html
http://www.malwarebytes.org/rr-update/rr-free-setup.exe
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah

Run a scan from here on-line:
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Download Avast Cleaner (offline scanner) from here:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html
Comodo BOClean : Anti-Malware Version 4.27
http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html

Run disk clean up and defrag in safe Mode.
HTH,
nass
---
http://www.nasstec.co.uk

 

[Alan Edwards]

Re: MS Paint problems

MS Paint doesn't have catalog files.

Open Paint up, then select Image, Attributes.
You probably have it set too large. Cut it down to the size you want,
e.g. 640 x 480 pixels or less. The smaller you have it, the faster it
will load. It will remember that setting until you change it again.

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows -Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.com/index.htm

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 03:06:05 -0700, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, peterhedge
<peterhedge@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Have been struggling for months with MS Paint opening painfully slowly. If I
>open now it takes at least 10 minutes to open hard drive goes mad and every
>application is affected you may as well go and make dinner while it sorts
>itself out.
>
>Then over the past couple of weeks Office Picture Manager started to do the
>same thing but after looking at this forum found that by deleting the
>associated .cag file hey presto its back to normal.
>
>Is the problem the same in MS paint and if so where do I find its associated
>catalogue file?

 

[peterhedge]

RE: MS Paint problems

Fixed - you're a genius

Deleted the paint registry as on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185501 and
hey presto !

Thanks

"nass" wrote:

>
>
> "peterhedge" wrote:
>
> > Have been struggling for months with MS Paint opening painfully slowly. If I
> > open now it takes at least 10 minutes to open hard drive goes mad and every
> > application is affected you may as well go and make dinner while it sorts
> > itself out.
> >
> > Then over the past couple of weeks Office Picture Manager started to do the
> > same thing but after looking at this forum found that by deleting the
> > associated .cag file hey presto its back to normal.
> >
> > Is the problem the same in MS paint and if so where do I find its associated
> > catalogue file?
>
> Your problem can be the cause of many things:
> 1- Not enough Disk Space
> 2- Not enough/Bad RAM
> 3- Bad/Damaged Applications
> 4- Blowated and infected system with malware and viruse and you need to do
> your house cleaning!
>
> Error Message: Mspaint Caused an Invalid Page Fault
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185501
>
> Not Enough Memory or Resources
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q129/5/45.asp
>
> <Optional if the above did help>
> Run a thorough scan by doing the following steps:
> 1... First, try to clean up your caches, Internet files and delete cookies
> by doing this:
> Click Start >> Control Panel >> Double click Network and Internet
> Connections >> Double click Internet Options.
> On the IE properties windows you will see these Tabs:
> General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs |
> Advanced
> Under General Tab clear your History, Internet Files and Cookies.
> Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
> [&] Browsing
> [ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
> Then click on Programs Tab and click Manage Add-Ons and Disable all non
> Verified Add-Ons (You should Renable them later one-by-one and see the
> culprit and update it or remove it.
> How to manage Add-Ons:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256
> Scan for malware from here:
> SuperAntispyware - Free
> http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html
> http://www.malwarebytes.org/rr-update/rr-free-setup.exe
> http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah
>
> Run a scan from here on-line:
> http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym
> http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
> Download Avast Cleaner (offline scanner) from here:
> http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html
> Comodo BOClean : Anti-Malware Version 4.27
> http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html
>
> Run disk clean up and defrag in safe Mode.
> HTH,
> nass
> ---
> http://www.nasstec.co.uk
>

 

[nass]

RE: MS Paint problems



"peterhedge" wrote:

> Fixed - you're a genius
>
> Deleted the paint registry as on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185501 and
> hey presto !
>
> Thanks

Glad to help and you are welcome.
Good luck.
nass
---
http://www.nasstec.co.uk