Install Windows 7 MS paint in windows XP, possible?

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Hi to all.

I like the improvements in MS paint in WIndows 7. I know there are ton of free programs that will let me do more, but I just got used to 7's paint program. Can I have installed in my other windows xp machine instead of the old one?



Thanks.
 
I don't think so. There really isn't much like it either because it's so basic.
 
What Dan_D said. Paint.NET is almost as easy and simple as Win7 Paint, but then can ramp up to replace Photoshop for a surprising amount of functions. Give it a try, its free.

Has anyone just copied off the mspaint.exe file from a Win7 system onto XP? I don't have an XP box handy to test this out on. It is in C:\Windows\system32\ on my 64bit Win7 workstation. It might need to be copied from a 32 bit Win7 system though to work with XP but I doubt that will make much difference. It probably is not a native 64bit app.
 
Copying the .exe won't work... I just tried copying a Win 7 one to an XP VM and no dice... it just launches the old style one instead.
 
800XL said:
What Dan_D said. Paint.NET is almost as easy and simple as Win7 Paint, but then can ramp up to replace Photoshop for a surprising amount of functions. Give it a try, its free.

Has anyone just copied off the mspaint.exe file from a Win7 system onto XP? I don't have an XP box handy to test this out on. It is in C:\Windows\system32\ on my 64bit Win7 workstation. It might need to be copied from a 32 bit Win7 system though to work with XP but I doubt that will make much difference. It probably is not a native 64bit app.
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You can in fact do a great deal of what most Photoshop users would use the program for. Yet at it's core it behaves pretty much exactly like MS paint. The learning curve for basic functions is about the same.
 
Dan_D said:
You can in fact do a great deal of what most Photoshop users would use the program for. Yet at it's core it behaves pretty much exactly like MS paint. The learning curve for basic functions is about the same.
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+1. Paint.NET is a basically the equivalent of GIMP from my limited knowledge and experience with 2D editing but Paint.NET is a bit easier to use I think. Both are great programs and anyone that ever has any occasional image editing needs should have both on hand.
 
heatlesssun said:
+1. Paint.NET is a basically the equivalent of GIMP from my limited knowledge and experience with 2D editing but Paint.NET is a bit easier to use I think. Both are great programs and anyone that ever has any occasional image editing needs should have both on hand.
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I tried Gimp and didn't like it. Then again I came from a Photoshop background with image editing. I tend to use Photoshop for most things, but I do use Paint.NET for simple cropping and quick things like posting screenshots, etc.
 
Man, this Paint.NET is some cool stuff ! Loved it already.

Thanks a million guys!
 
Dan_D said:
I tried Gimp and didn't like it. Then again I came from a Photoshop background with image editing. I tend to use Photoshop for most things, but I do use Paint.NET for simple cropping and quick things like posting screenshots, etc.
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Not a digital art guy by any stretch. I've heard other people that a Photoshop users say they like Paint.NET more than GIMP. I just whichever one I can figure out first for what I'm trying to do and that usually ends up being Paint.NET.
 
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