[john1]

Hi,

I would like to remove the tick from 'Draw Opaque'
in my Paint program.

Is there a fix for this?

Regards, John

[hewee]

john1,

Just click on it again.

[john1]

Hi hewee,

Yes, of course, you're quite right.
Click on it and its gone.

I should express myself properly shouldn't i
i'll try again to say it properly:

I would like to alter the default on the tick
for 'Draw Opaque' so that initially none of
those ticks appear in Paint.

I have used a fix for the 'Open with' and i
wonder if a similar thing could be done here?

Its just a little annoyance, but if i could
sort it, i would be very pleased.

Regards, John

[hewee]

john1,

OK you got me now. I never use MS Paint much at all any more and I just open it up again and see that the 'Draw Opaque' is checked again.

I know not know to do what you want now but uncheck it every time you open it.
Sorry maybe someone else can help you out.

[john1]

Cheers hewee,

Ive managed to convince myself that its a registry setting.
Without any proof at all!
Im working my way through the registry,
hoping that if i spot it,
that somehow i will know.

There is such a lot in there ...
and i dont know what it looks like.

Regards, John

[hewee]

john1,

I ran Norton clean sweep and did not finish it but I did come up with a list and I made a copy of it in this text file attached here.
So maybe ir can help you find the Registry key you need. Your on your working there.


So I hope it helps you out. This is the paint that came with 98.

[john1]

Thanks hewee,
but i didnt find anything that loked like the 'Open with'

I need the help of someone who knows about the registry.
the trouble is that i dont have a clue.

John

[hewee]

john1,

You welcome and I am like you and don't know what to do in the Registry.
But like a lot of programs they don't clean up everything that is installed or that it puts in the Registry so maybe that list can show you a folder it is in.

[john1]

do you have the 'Open with' tick removed?

[hewee]

I don't see any "open with" in paint.

[john1]

Im sorry hewee.
i really dont express myself very well do i.

There is a sub-window that crops up
when a user tries to operate a prog
that WIN has not previously been told what
to use for it, and to do it like that each time.

Its called 'Open with'

You must have met it.
It has a tick.
If you dont remove this tick,
Then every time an associated prog
is called up by the user,
then WIN will open with as before.

Myself and many others feel this behaviour
is not user-friendly, and have altered this
tick so that the user has to put it in,
rather than take it out.

This is much more amenable, and prevents
accidental screwing up of the 'Open with'
associations.

Have you included this simple,
but very useful alteration?

John

[hewee]

Ok I was thinking that and I should of said so also.

I have forgot to uncheck the 'Open with' before also and know what a pain it can be to undo. Was lucky that it was something that had no association and I just wanted to look at it in notepad. So the undoing it was easy.

[john1]

Hi hewee,

from your answer, i have worked out that you
have the tick in its usual place, and that you have
noticed it can be a pain.

You can make a very small alteration which will
swap that tick around.

That it will not be there when that window crops up,
but you can put a tick in the box in the normal way.

This, i feel is much more user friendly.

Especially if others have a go on your machine, and
something wont open, they may well try that, and
cause you extra work putting it straight again.

rkselby's site has a neat little fix for this purpose.

Check it out, i wouldnt be without it.

John

[hewee]

Thanks John I will check it out.

But if somethings happens to my PC I have no one to get bad at but myself.
I am the only users here so I can't blame anyone. Well if my sister was here the same day or the day before I say she did even if she never touch the PC. When she got her new Gateway PC years ago she was having trouble with it all the time and you guess it if I was over there that day I would be asked what I did or get a call from her when I get home. So now I do the same to her.

Have a good weekend

[Dalamar]

There are programs that watch the Registry, If you are sure it is in there you can run one of these, open pain, check/uncheck the box and see what if anything happends to the registery.


Just a warning, Windows uses the registry alot, so you will want to close everything else out so you can find what Paint is doing.