Windows "Paint" program
Up until last week I have used the Windows Accessory Program "Paint" to do most of my work annotating photos and making simple diagrams.. Yesterday I tried to use it, and it will not work period.. Not...
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DD716TED wrote:
This is a strange problem.. I restarted the shop computer and now "Paint" works fine.. so I restarted the other two computers in the house and now "Paint" works fine on them.. I give up! Thanks again for the responses..
Why it happened on both shop and home computers at the same time I do not know. but .. You might want to do a health check on the Hard Drive and/or memory.
Also a malware scan on all computers.
Sometimes.. When you go to load a program.. something gets wonkey and a bit or two get flipped and the thing won't work.
Restarting the computer fixes it.
Another thing is windows has some rather bad management routines.. Programs can leave a lot of "Garbage" behind.. Back in my Commodore days ((Vic-20, 64 and 128) when running in Basic they do what is called a "Garbage collect" (Shut down for like a minute while they clean up memory freeing up mermory that has been used but not freed).
Windows needs to do that in the background but does not so eventually you run out of memory. Again a RE_BOOT fixes it.
