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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?

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Guest nass

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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

Guest Alan Edwards

Guest Alan Edwards

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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?

Guest peterhedge

Guest peterhedge

Posted
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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

>

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