RIP, Microsoft Paint. MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 1. Paint 3. D. Microsoft lists the 3. Windows 1. 0s next autumn update, a little X marking the end of an era. The app is certainly a relic, from a time when the casual computer user couldnt crack open Photoshop or Skitch or Pixelmator or thousands of web apps. MS Paint cant save image components as layers or vectors its for making flat static images only. It doesnt smooth lines or guess at your best intentions. It does what you tell it and nothing more, faithfully representing the herky jerky motion of drawing freehand with a computer mouse. Its from a time before touch, a time before trackpads. As more sophisticated options appeared, Paints janky aesthetic became a conscious choice. Paint became the metonym for that aesthetic, even if an image was actually created in another app. Security. Lets face it. Software has holes. And hackers love to exploit them. New vulnerabilities appear almost daily. If you have software we all do you need to. IC725628.png' alt='Windows Live Essentials 2009 Silent Install Program' title='Windows Live Essentials 2009 Silent Install Program' />Just purchased a new PC Windows 7 32 Bit not SP1. Installed Visual Studio 6 Enterprise Editon, with no problems. Ran the install as Administrator. Applied SP6. The latest PC gaming hardware news, plus expert, trustworthy and unbiased buying guides. When I logon to Windows 7 since upgrading from Vista, a window is displayed titlebar Email. Message There is no email program associated to perform. TV Tropes lists major limitations that came to define a certain look the wobbly freehand lines, awkward color handling, and inappropriate export settings that give Paint its distinctive look. In 2. 01. 4, Gawkers Sam Biddle noted Paints influence on conspiracy theory images, calling the form Chart Brut. In amateur detectives attempts at identifying the Boston Marathon bombers, the simplicity and jaggedness of Paint evokes the crazy wall aesthetic of red string and scribbled notes, apparently without irony. The same year, internet historian Patrick Davison explored Paints influence on the last decade of meme culture, particularly Rage Comics. Patch Editor Xbox 360. The outsider art aesthetic feels appropriate to the relatable everyday content, and makes the art form unthreatening. Of course, Paint offered a few features to smooth things out, like the circle and line tools and the fill tool, all used in the stoner comics of the early 1. Crucially, those circles still had jagged curves. The bright colors of stoner comics are flat, as MS Paint didnt support gradients without an elaborate hack. Contrast those pixellated lines with the slick, stylish face from this art tutorial This slickness is built into Paints successor, Paint 3. D. From the moment you start sketching, Paint 3. MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 10, replaced by the new app Paint 3D. Microsoft lists. Note This is for Win7VistaXP install ISO files only. Use Easy2Boot for XPVista78 ISO installs linux Live CD almost any other ISO you want to bootD smooths out your art. It also supports automatic selection tools and content aware fill to rival Photoshops. By automatically improving art, Paint 3. D hides the process behind the image. Paints sloppiness is probably why rage comics got so popular. Looking at a rage comic, you can tell exactly how it was drawn, and how you might draw one yourself. By delivering exactly what the artist draws, MS Paint forms an image that the viewer can mentally reverse engineer and imitate. Unless you go absolutely nuts with it. Reddit user Toweringhorizon painstakingly assembled the drawing To a Little Radio using MS Paint tools like the oil brush, stretching the medium while maintaining a pixelated look. Its one of the top submissions to MS Paint subreddit, a beautiful collaborative art gallery. Scrolling through this art feels like flipping through the sketchbook of the most artistic kid in high school. Theres an accepted roughness, a desired minimalism. For example, the exquisite raindrops in the work above are reflected in a flat, featureless tabletop. Like a transistor radio, Paint might be showing its age, but this tenacious little gadget should not be underestimated. To a Little Radio doesnt even come close to testing Paints limits. As we say goodbye to the app that shaped an era, let us watch this bizarrely soundtracked time lapse of drawing Santa Claus in MS Paint on Windows 7 over the course of 5. We can only believe this is real because faking it would be even harder. Thread Windows 7, 3. MSCOMCTL. OCX could not be loadedAmazing that this problem is still alive and kicking, and it took me several hours to solve it for me thanks to all above for input and ideas. From what I can make out, it seems the problem is linked to the special security measures in windows 8 maybe earlier as well and linked to how the explorer searches the indicated folders. For me the problem was with the MSCOMM3. OCX file. I downloaded it into System. The file was also not visible via the Project Add References section of VST 2. After checking one of these other files, it seems that the security has a special user called Trusted. Installer and my file I copied did not have this user defined. It was also not possible to actually assign this user, so I was stuck. Following what some others had earlier suggested I removed the file from the system. Visual Studio 2. 01. Visual Studio 2. 01. VST 2. 01. 3, via Project, Add Reference, and then clicking on browse and going to the folder. However the file would still not load. In order to solve this I had to register the ocx using Regsvr. Admin prompt, but it still tricky since I had to navigate the way to the above folder using cd commands before the regsvr. After this the ocx file was loaded into VST2. Project, Add Reference, Browse or also now visible as Microsoft Comm Control 6. MSComm assignment in VST2. VB with MSComm. Lib. MSComm and finally the error was gone. So for the record and hope that someone else might benefit and save wasting hours to summarise the procedure I successfully used. Copy the MSCOMM3. OCX file to your Visual Basic Studio 2. Visual Studio 2. 01. Open a Command Prompt Admin and navigate your way to your visual basic studio 2. Visual Studio 2. 01. CMd. Line prompt, i. Visual Studio 2. 01. Reg. Srv. 32 command from your new current directory the visual studio 2. Reg. Srv. 32 MSCOMM3. OCXafter this works you can quit the command prompt window. VST2. 01. 3 and assign the reference. Project, Add Reference, COM, Type Libraries and the scan down to Microsoft Comm Control 6. OK, or. Project, Add Reference, Browse, the click the Browse button and navigate to your visual studio 2. MSCOMM3. 2. OCX file, the click OK. Rerun the builddebug F5 and check the error is gone. If not you might need to prefix the Ms. Comm definition, i. Dim With. Events MSComm. As MSComm. Lib. MSComm in my case the above worked successfully in the build process, although I am a long way away from actually running the code at the moment, but nothing yet to indicate it should not work.