How to set default values to ms paint?

[krupted]

for some reason, after i had tried to load a large scan, over 1gb, in ms paint i cannot get it to go away. it promted me that the file was too large and needs to close.

now, everytime i open paint it opens with a canvas big enough to suc up all of my resources, its now at 778mb. i cannot shrink it, anything i try ms paint pops up a message to free up system memory, yet i cant since i only have a gig.

any ideas? im full of problems lately i know

[rangeral]

Try image up top select attributes while image is open, might want to use a copy for the moment, and use the default button. Not too many options in paint, could add/remove it restart and add it back in.

[krupted]

how did you know that? i swear i tried every option in paint i could, all giving me that error. attributes worked perfect:) thanks, much appreciated

[rangeral]

Well I'll be cause I didn't know it neither, just not too many options in paint, thought about photoshop and took a shot is all, glad it worked.

[uart]

My next door neighbors kid once did something similar to their MSpaint install. He somehow got a ridiculous value set for the default size. I'm talking about something so totally outrageous that it couldn't have worked even if they 100Gig of memory. (and they only had 256MB of memory BTW).

I'm not sure what he did to get it like this but I couldn't change it as the program just crashed every time before I could do anything. Eventually I had to go back to my computer and log registry changes while I resized an MSpaint image and go back armed with the appropriate registry keys to fix it in regedit. It fixed it ok but was a PITA to have to resort to that.

[wrathchild_67]

Or you could use this free MSPaint replacement:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4548

[edit]Looks like the final version of 2.1 was released today: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/