MSPaint IconThis guide is for people who removed or accidentally un-installed their Microsoft Paint on their Windows, but now want them back. I lost my MS Paint too two days ago, poking at the wrong place of my Add/Remove Windows Component and there goes my mspaint. It can only be re-installed with a Windows XP CD in my case, but I don’t have any with me.

If your Paint is gone from your computer too, do this to make sure the software really does not exist in your system, and not just the shortcut being deleted. Go to Start > Run > Type “mspaint” > OK. If your MSPaint starts, meaning it is still there, just that you have deleted the shortcut. Just create another shortcut and it will be fine.

I have a Windows XP CD
If you are 100% sure that MS Paint does not exist in your system anymore, there are three ways to get it back. The first way is to install it via your Windows XP CD. You can do so by going to

Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components > Double click on "Accessories and Utilities" > Double click on "Accessories" > Check "Paint" > OK > Next..

I DON’T have a Windows XP CD

The second way is grab a copy of the mspaint file from a relative, a friend or your pet dog’s computer. Copy mspaint.exe from their C:WINDOWSsystem32 to your flash drive, and paste it back to your computer’s “system32″ folder. Create a shortcut of it and place it anywhere you like and you are done.

Download mspaint.exe
Worse comes to worst, you don’t have a CD, nor a friend or relative with Windows XP, and your pet dog is using a MacBook, you are left with no choice but to download it.

mspaint icon [Download mspaint.exe] (mirror)

After you have downloaded it, move mspaint.exe to your C:WINDOWSsystem32 and Paint will be available again for your computer. To create a shortcut, just right click on the mspaint.exe icon, select “Create Shortcut“. When the shortcut is created, you can cut and paste it to anywhere you want for easy access later.

In case you lost all your Windows system applications, the following folder consist of most System Apps of Windows XP SP 1 (calculator, notepad etc.), and paint is also available in it.

Download Windows XP System Apps (mirror)

Happy painting :)

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This post has 188 comments.

  1. d34th

    20 Apr 08
    2:34 pm

    ty for this info i really needed it

  2. jignesh

    07 Jun 08
    7:17 pm

    thnks bro………..it did work……thnks for tht link

  3. britgit

    15 Jun 08
    11:19 am

    how do i move the mspaint toC:\WINDOWS\system32
    sorry i’m new to this..lol

  4. Vincent

    15 Jun 08
    12:08 pm

    @britgit: Go to My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > WINDOWS > system32

  5. bechie

    01 Jul 08
    1:00 am

    thanks a lot
    you are a great help

  6. Juztyouandme

    11 Jul 08
    3:09 pm

    I did all of this and all went great, thanks. Now, I tried to edit a picture by left clicking on the mouse and it gives me a msg:

    This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel.

  7. J0

    14 Aug 08
    9:14 pm

    tx alote man i was looking for a link like this for about a month

  8. Jenn

    16 Aug 08
    11:11 pm

    I tried running MSPAINT and it worked fine… but paint is nowhere to be found in my start menu anywhere. I want to make a shortcut for it, but I dont know how. How do I create another shortcut?

  9. JERRY

    13 Sep 08
    3:27 pm

    I tried running MS PAINT and it worked fine… but paint is nowhere to be found in my start menu anywhere. I want to make a shortcut for it, but I don’t know how. How do I create another shortcut?

  10. Adriana

    06 Oct 08
    9:02 am

    thanxs this is a great help i would mension this to everybody iv been working with this for years but i diddnt now how to do this c ya

  11. Adriana

    07 Oct 08
    4:44 am

    im having a bit of trouble now making a shortcut can u help?????????

  12. Leslie

    10 Oct 08
    12:16 am

    hank you so much! I hear theres bigger/better apps, but i’m used to this one.

  13. alec

    02 Nov 08
    3:45 pm

    thank you so much! hahahaha! im so happy now! your post was very very helpful!

  14. i like the download

  15. jay

    17 Nov 08
    8:45 am

    how do i get ms panit 4 free!!!!

    thatz my comment so give mii feeback @ MY EMAIL—–LETITRAININME@GMAIL.COM
    KAYZ

  16. Esha

    20 Nov 08
    12:55 am

    Best possible support one can provide…
    Thnx 4ur support!!!

  17. RYDEEN

    23 Nov 08
    4:27 am

    Thanks!

  18. Cesar

    28 Nov 08
    2:40 pm

    Thank you, this was helpful!

  19. Trung Tran

    12 Jan 09
    1:09 pm

    Thanks so much for this helpful

  20. Dorothy Noel

    23 Jan 09
    12:32 pm

    Okay I found the paint thing, but dont know how to save the program to the system 32 thing. I dont know what I click on. I click on it and it does open but I cant just go to file save, becasue it will save the picture which is blank I dont know how to save the file. Please help. asap

    I actually need help with more details on what to do. I opened file and see mspaint. Click o it and it opens mspaint. Then. I dont know if im supposed to click on the mspaint folder and it says something about extracting it. I dont know what im doing. So I actually need more help with finding out how to save it to my system32 folder. I thought I did it but its not existing still when I go to run; then mspaint it shows that it still doesnt exist in the computer’s memory. so If I could just get a better detailed description. Maybe there is something that I am not doing before saving the file where I forgot.

  21. Vincent

    23 Jan 09
    3:59 pm

    I’ve emailed you with instructions, hope it helps.

  22. jimnei

    23 Jan 09
    8:36 pm

    I need Windows Paint To modify some hunting files and it is not on my machine. Need a Copy, Thanks!

  23. Vincent

    24 Jan 09
    4:11 pm
  24. nicole

    23 Feb 09
    4:49 am

    thank you so much!
    was very easy to figure out, if you still don’t know a way to save it to your computer here’s a way how!
    1. when the download popup comes up, push save.
    2. save it to documents.
    3. go to start, my documents.
    4. drag the MSPAINT icon onto your background with all your other icons.
    5. right click, and push rename.
    6. rename it “paint” so next time you know what it is!
    :)
    -hope this is helpfull!

  25. Donna

    27 Feb 09
    1:31 pm

    Thank You! I hope that you can see that I am bowing and doing the “I’m Not Worthy” pose. I’m a bit shocked to see that this many people all have had the same problem. I have no idea where or when my Paint left me, but I do know that I can now get it back. Thank you so much. ~ Donna

  26. Abhinav

    22 Mar 09
    12:21 am

    This is an amazing site man .. i really needed that mspaint.exe file.. nobody had it .. i searched whole of google for this..
    really man.. m very thankful to you..

    i’m glad that u thought of putting this up online.. keep up the good work..!

  27. JJ334

    25 Mar 09
    7:50 pm

    200* Thanks

  28. Jisen

    28 Mar 09
    6:11 pm

    thank you soooo much!!! you can´t believe how much i missed my paint.. will never forget this ;)

  29. Tina

    30 Mar 09
    4:08 am

    this is absolutely the best, you are the greatest!!!!! I have been so stressed over losing most of my programs trying to do a clean up, i should have worked on a mental clean up first. hahah. Do you happen to know why i can get all my games back now, like hearts, solitaire, ect.
    Thank you so very much.

  30. Gneh

    10 Apr 09
    1:51 pm

    Thank you so much. I really needed these. And it works. Thank you! More power!

  31. Jiniya

    12 Apr 09
    7:31 am

    THANK YOU!!!!
    i had to read everything…
    and i could’ve just scrolled down and look at the download link. -__-

  32. Jiniya

    12 Apr 09
    7:33 am

    well, it isn’t the same icon like the one next to the article. where can i get back that icon? it looks pretty cool though.

  33. Jiniya

    12 Apr 09
    7:35 am

    That’s happening to me now.

  34. Ytram

    18 Apr 09
    9:27 am

    This was soo cool, I lost paint months ago and stumbled in here. I don’t know how to make a shortcut but suggesting run:mspaint works! I wish I could get the shortcut back into the bar thingie, but whatever. Thanks so much.

  35. Kenneth

    19 Apr 09
    1:29 pm

    THANKS SOOOOO MUCH!

    I did the same as everyone else and accidently removed everything from the uninstall control panel.

    Paint is back……take that Photoshop!

    :)

  36. sarathmohan

    20 Apr 09
    2:55 pm

    thank u very much………………..

  37. nique

    27 Apr 09
    11:42 pm

    How will i put MS Paint into the C:\WINDOWS\system32?

  38. Michelle Mcpherson

    30 Apr 09
    2:51 pm

    i want to use it to make a crime scene for a term paper

  39. Roxana

    06 May 09
    12:18 am

    Thanks so much. For some reason my Clean Files took mine off my computer. I have other files like this but still use Paint a lot. I really do like it now that I know how to use it. Your a doll. Thanks so much.
    Rox

  40. Gary

    15 May 09
    1:11 am

    I deleted my shortcut to mspaint; how do I creat another shortcut?.

    Thanks,

  41. Vincent

    15 May 09
    1:35 am

    Go to C:\Windows\system32 > look for mspaint.exe Right-click on it > Create shortcut > Drag shortcut to wherever you want.

  42. aksda

    15 May 09
    7:01 am

    YOU’R THE MAN !!! OHHH YEAH !!

    thank you VERY much for this !!

    /love ;)

    <3 <3

  43. Chante

    19 May 09
    9:45 am

    Thanks dude i was freakin out, looking all over my computer for it haha. Thanks!

  44. hack

    28 May 09
    9:48 pm

    thnx

  45. danial MY

    10 Jun 09
    1:08 pm

    thank you!!! now i can use paint back!! i love to draw something use paint thank for make this web

  46. me

    12 Jun 09
    8:49 pm

    i have windows vista though.

  47. heyyyy

    22 Jun 09
    10:00 pm

    i dont get it either its confusing??????????????

  48. Vincent

    24 Jun 09
    2:56 am

    It works on both Windows XP and Vista as far as I’m concerned.

  49. Rita

    30 Jun 09
    8:55 pm

    Thanks, this was downloaded but I do not see the Paint icon in the Accessories area yet. I added the Paint to the windows\sys32 area and when I opened the sys32, Paint was there with the brushes in the glass. I cannot paste it here either to show you but you know what it looks like.

    I hope this works. I will try it to see. Thanks for your info. Rita

    In the Systems Apps. There is no Fax either and this is normally on the winxp cd. I could not get the winxp cd to install the Paint or the Fax as it asked if this was the Microsoft Home Edition of Winxp and it was. I did not use my laptop winxp cd for this and probably should have.

  50. Rewbie Frost

    01 Jul 09
    4:19 pm

    thanks soooo much! so helpful

  51. This is the paint I needed for the new PC I play on now! Thanks!m :D

  52. Khatt X X

    13 Jul 09
    7:24 pm

    OH MY GOODNESS, I WAS JUST ABOUT TO GIVE UP.. THIS HAS BEEN SOO HELPFUL!! THANK YOU SOO MUCH!

    ~

  53. Rajesh

    31 Jul 09
    12:28 am

    Thanks for info …great going……really helpful…Keep up the good work… :D

  54. Pallist08

    31 Jul 09
    1:59 am

    Thanks alot!!! No idea what happened to mine (possibly the scary “remove pgms” process!) and I had no cd available. I took a chance on ur download & I got it back. You help restore my faith in human beings!

  55. Danesh

    31 Jul 09
    10:11 am

    Instruction :
    download the files, copying to the windows/system32, and right click the files and create shortcut to desktop…DONE

  56. Ronald

    02 Aug 09
    4:20 pm

    Tnx…iT Helps A Lot..

  57. Jase

    11 Aug 09
    6:24 pm

    OMG! thank you! I accidentally deleted microsoft paint form my computer by doing the “Add/Remove Windows Component” thing you mentioned.

    But anyways thx for putting the link for downloading MS paint, this really helped.

  58. Rene

    27 Aug 09
    2:11 am

    wow, i find this article very very useful and very helpful, i’ve been trying to find a way to get ms paint back for months, all the links that i’ve dl’ed and installed jus kept getting screwed up. I didnt know u were suppose to put the paint.exe to the system32 folder lolol, ty alooot for this!!

  59. John

    02 Sep 09
    6:35 pm

    OMG! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

  60. Ruth

    06 Sep 09
    10:57 pm

    Thanks so much for your help !

  61. Katie

    06 Sep 09
    11:52 pm

    Awesome! I thought it was completely gone and it’s what I use to edit videos! the run thing rly worked!!!! THANKS SOOOO MUCH!!!!

  62. rodney pantonial

    17 Sep 09
    7:49 pm

    thanks so much! i lost my mspaint 2weeks ago after trying to optimize my windows and memory by deleting uneeded programs and files in both the system and the other drives,

    i was stuck with adobe photoshop sometime now and i really get impatient with the loading time just to start the freakin powerful program…

    now i can do simple editing again in paint like crop,invert color,resize,and some more without the hassle of overloading my videocard and ram

    thanks so much for giving me this! you are the man!

  63. REDZOEU

    02 Oct 09
    7:28 pm

    Thx A Lot Man! U R Good To Be A Helper!
    U Are Smart!Why?Because You Uploaded The “mspaint.exe”.Just Because “mspaint.exe” Doesn’t Exist Anymore At 2 Of My Comp,And Now I Have It Back Again!THX VERY MUCH MAN!.Watch My Videos At My Website (Youtube Cannel).

  64. zef

    03 Oct 09
    8:55 am

    lost mine while reinstallaling thanks man

  65. Daniel

    12 Oct 09
    12:25 am

    This works for people who have ribbons problems with mspaint windows 7. the smooth line performed by windows 7′s mspaint version is not performet by the one sugested by this topic.

  66. Prue

    15 Oct 09
    8:13 pm

    This is one amazing site that really helped me!!! Thanks a zillion!!!

  67. mike

    22 Oct 09
    7:00 pm

    finally someone who gives another option than the ”find it in your system32 or windows components”, thanks so much, and special thanks for the download link

  68. Heidi

    22 Oct 09
    9:13 pm

    You are FREAKING amazing, THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

  69. jorge

    23 Oct 09
    9:24 pm

    teste

  70. Dada

    23 Oct 09
    11:12 pm

    Thank you very much… it helps me alot!

  71. nicko

    27 Oct 09
    4:15 pm

    YES!! thanks!

  72. LC2010

    03 Nov 09
    5:30 am

    my sentiments exactly!

    the same time paint dissappeared, so did all the system games, like solitare and free cell. notepad and the calculator are still in “accessories” but all the games and paint left, i really needed paint back, but would you, Vincent, know what to do about the games? i miss playing spider solitare and pin ball!

  73. LC2010

    03 Nov 09
    5:33 am

    perfect, thanks!!!

  74. Blaze_meister

    07 Nov 09
    10:33 pm

    You got to run then type in C:\WINDOWS\system32 it will open a folder then drop and drag mspaint into it. Then create a shortcut using right-click and put it on your desktop or other desirable place\

    simpler terms if Vincent’s didn’t work for you :P

  75. vikas

    09 Nov 09
    1:12 am

    ya thanks it worked

  76. christopher

    21 Nov 09
    4:53 am

    Thank you 1000000000000000000000!!!!
    it worked
    ive been trying amillion years to get paint!

  77. Dick

    28 Nov 09
    11:27 pm

    I have paint on my desktop and have been using it for years. All of a sudden the other day when I try to make a pic. smaller and save it, it only comes out in black and white. I get a msg. telling me that I may loose some color. I cannot figure out what happened. When I go to list my software it doesn’t show up. I also went to ADD/Delete and cannot find it. I’m at a loss.

  78. Dick

    28 Nov 09
    11:39 pm

    I have paint on my desktop and have been using it for years. All of a sudden the other day when I try to make a pic. smaller and save it, it only comes out in black and white. I get a msg. telling me that I may loose some color. I cannot figure out what happened. When I go to list my software it doesn’t show up. I also went to ADD/Delete and cannot find it. I’m at a loss. (add) the note I get says. “Saving in this format may cause loss of color information. Do you want to continue. How do I change the format so I don’t lose the color.

  79. Shelly

    30 Nov 09
    11:01 am

    THANK YOU SO MUCCCCCCCCH.

    I have been dying to find a Free MS Paint download, I found mtPaint – that’s… just complicated. All I need with MS paint is resizing photos….

    <3 Thank youuuuu~~

  80. JoJo

    11 Dec 09
    3:23 pm

    Thank you so much. I can’t believe Microsoft is so anal regarding ms-paint’s installation. I have a completely legit copy of Windows XP Pro. I lost the CD years ago somewhere in my basement & apparently Microsoft just really needs it to reinstall such a simple program.

    Anyways… the writer of this article ended 2 months of my pain. Thank you! :D

  81. Shelly

    16 Dec 09
    1:40 am

    Thank you, u’ve saved all my pic files for paint :) Merry Xmas

  82. Julia

    20 Dec 09
    6:11 pm

    Thanks a ton! I was puzzling forever on how to get MSPaint back on my laptop and I couldn’t find it from Microsoft and I didn’t want to get some replacement program. I wanted MSPaint! I’m kind of embarrassed that I had never thought of just copying it from another computer. It’s so simple!

    Julia

  83. pj

    27 Dec 09
    10:19 pm

    please email with help if anyone could be so kind.
    i have tried all this..i have paint and was able to find it on my pc but it wont let me drag or drop it to the system32..when i right click on the icon all i get is move size min close opptions..i have it up in my tray but that it i cant get a shortcut to add it to anywhere..please help

    thanks so much
    jadedaula5@yahoo.com

  84. ahamed

    28 Dec 09
    10:13 pm

    thanks.

  85. Julian

    31 Dec 09
    1:18 am

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
    I used this to get XP paint onto windows 7. As the paint on windows 7 is absolutely diabolical!!

  86. Hey could you add Sound recorder to your package, i need it bc of an accidental deletion.

  87. maria

    31 Dec 09
    6:58 am

    THANKS SO MUCH !!!

  88. Shivang

    01 Jan 10
    2:36 pm

    Thank you so much!!

    I am very sure I did not delete/uninstall paint/calculator but I was surprised they had vanished.

  89. many mol

    05 Jan 10
    3:35 am

    Thanks works like a butter…

    mspaint is back on my computer

  90. Vishal

    05 Jan 10
    3:35 am

    THANKS A BUNCH!!!

  91. makuji

    10 Jan 10
    9:16 pm

    thx a lot bro.. it works as it should.. im just simply drag d mspaint.exe to WINDOWS\system32 and pin to start menu.. and it works ^^

  92. mieyu

    12 Jan 10
    7:11 pm

    hey thx a lot!

  93. Girly12

    14 Jan 10
    2:45 am

    Hey, Thanks! I had it already.. but i wanted the english version, but still.. Thanks!!

  94. HIELLO,
    MY NAME IS ISABEL DIAZ….
    LAST WEEK, I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH MS PAINT AND ERR MSG … THIRTE IS NOT ENOUGH MEMORY OR TO RESOURNCE TO COMPLETE OPERATION, CLOSE SOME PROGRAMS. AND THEN TRY AGIAN…..

    WHAT I CAN TO DO?? THE IMAGE TOO BIG AND CAN’T CLOSE?? I TURN OFF COMPUTER….. MAYBE MY BROTHER GONNA FIX IT…. DELETES MS PAINT AND REINSTALL NEW MS PAINT SOON….

  95. Kyonko

    17 Jan 10
    2:24 am

    Thanks alot. I did want the vista version of paint though, I transfered it from my parents computer but it always comes up with a “Failed to create empty document” error. XP version meets my needs though.

  96. suresh

    18 Jan 10
    5:51 pm

    right click the ms paint icon.Go to send to option and click ‘desktop(create shortcut)’ button.

  97. Kishor

    22 Jan 10
    1:11 am

    its really very helpful from u bro……..
    thank u very much.
    god bless u.

  98. Nathi

    23 Jan 10
    2:10 am

    Dont’ care about my english, I can’t speak it very well, I’m Brazilian. Oh my god, Thanks

  99. Priyanshu

    23 Jan 10
    2:42 pm

    I had one pic but it being destroyed by recolouring it on ‘paint’. can any body tell me how to regain it original essence.

  100. Anne

    24 Jan 10
    6:45 pm

    Thanks a lot! Works in Windows 7 too :)

  101. AppleChi

    26 Jan 10
    10:55 am

    Thanks so much! I hate Windows 7 Paint. =P

  102. sanketh

    27 Jan 10
    2:02 am

    thanks bro.. its working….

  103. VIJAYA

    27 Jan 10
    3:54 pm

    right click the paint iccngo to sent

  104. thanks on this bro i realy like the way you say if you dont have any friend or ur dog is using macbook i realy lough at hard

  105. him

    02 Feb 10
    10:43 pm

    thnx a ton for ms paint

  106. Sharubii

    05 Feb 10
    7:30 am

    Thank you so much! I was about to kill my laptop because of the new Windows 7 version of MS Paint (stupid anti-aliasing!); this link saved my blood pressure a lot! XD

    I cannot worship you enough right now.

  107. luke

    06 Feb 10
    9:46 pm

    hehe i want this paint because i have windows 7 and i dont know where is what can i download this?

  108. Pratik

    07 Feb 10
    3:58 pm

    Thanx a lot ….

  109. RR

    07 Feb 10
    11:26 pm

    Thanks for the great help. It worked like charm. My MS paint is working fine now.
    Thanks a lot…

  110. Thomas Jeffersonot

    08 Feb 10
    9:18 am

    awesome! if i ever lose my paint ill know where to look! :D

    but do you know how to get the new (MS7) paint, for my vista?

  111. elcapitano

    10 Feb 10
    10:53 pm

    Absolutely tremendous – thanks very much!

  112. Your dog using a macbook haha. Humor genious.

  113. Di5missed

    12 Feb 10
    5:44 am

    Thank you very much. I lost my Microsoft Paint when my computer got restarted (renewed windows). I tried drawing in other programs but I just can’t do it :\
    Thanks a lot! ^^

  114. Mmarple

    14 Feb 10
    6:03 pm

    Hi! I’ve tried to reinstall Paint, but still get the same error message, “not enough memory, close and try again”. Any suggestions? Thanks! Marcia

  115. JM

    15 Feb 10
    7:53 am

    Thanks! It worked..

    Cheers

    JM

  116. WOW, thank you SO much, windows 7 has “upgraded” mspaint and erased all simple paint brushes for pixel art. You are a life saver!

  117. may

    24 Feb 10
    12:52 pm

    i found a nice software on a page on the net to restore all the window xp accessories and utilities if u have deleted them accidently…follow the link and click the download link on the site opened:
    http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Accessories.htm

  118. isaac5

    26 Feb 10
    10:18 pm

    can you take the windows vista paint and use it on an xp machine?

  119. Joe Morrow

    27 Feb 10
    1:12 am

    Found this info very usefull. Being as thick as mollasses in the neck of a Jack Daniels Bottle this info helped me me extract paint from the utilities and get it onto the start panel. I use paint quite a bit. Great for taking screen grabs. Paint user should also try Paint.NET. Its a Freebie
    Best Regards and many thanks
    Joe”as thick as mince” Morrow

  120. Ryan

    05 Mar 10
    8:17 am

    Works well, however I cannot add text or save as anything other than .PNG. Works great other than that but I wish I knew how to fix this.

  121. Son

    09 Mar 10
    4:26 pm

    it sucks i want ms paint not nomal paint

  122. Lawson

    10 Mar 10
    5:40 pm

    Thank you sooooooooo much for this! I recently got a new computer with Windows 7 and the Paint that comes with is SUCKS!!!

  123. Jake

    03 Apr 10
    6:54 am

    Thank you so much the download worked perfectly

  124. thanks i like this paint

  125. Sumit Sood

    09 Apr 10
    11:26 pm

    Thanx dude,, its working. You solved a mess for me. You r genius.

  126. Sagar Prashant Bhatt

    17 Apr 10
    11:22 pm

    Check this website out:

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntwks40/paint/1/nt4/en-us/paintnt.exe

    A pop up box will appear. First click save and select the place you want to save it.

    Then click run, after it downloads, and then MS paint will be installed to your computer.

    Happy painting!

  127. Sagar Prashant Bhatt

    23 Apr 10
    7:22 pm

    Still, maybe PAINT.NET is much better than the ordinary MS paint.

  128. Beck

    28 Apr 10
    10:36 am

    I downloaded this because I didn’t like the Windows 7 version of MS paint.

    When I go to save a file, it says that it cannot save because the save was interrupted.

    Sometimes when I save something, there’s a completely blank document saved. I can’t trash it because apparantly, the file doesn’t even exist.

    I went through all sorts of hell changing properties and ownership of files and stuff to get Old Paint working on Windows 7, and now this.

    Any help is appreciated.

  129. jonni

    06 May 10
    8:55 am

    lolz if ur dog is using a macbook.

  130. your mom

    09 May 10
    12:36 pm

    i almost CRIED when i found this T_T

  131. Kublam

    10 May 10
    10:40 pm

    Yeah, man, made my filophilic day. I really can’t STAND MS Office 7/Vista or MS Paint 7. They’re both ridiculously gaudy and circuitous.

  132. j baby

    11 May 10
    9:44 pm

    i need hep finding microsoft word

  133. johnny

    13 May 10
    3:35 am

    omg it didn’t workz sumthing isn’t working but it’s not your program

  134. liam

    18 May 10
    10:11 am

    this saved my life!!!I HATE THE NEW WINDOWS 7 PAINt PS thank you

  135. anon

    19 May 10
    2:32 am

    This post was no help at all. I tried EVERYTHING, and it still doensit work.

  136. amitava

    21 May 10
    11:53 am

    Thanks a lot I really needed mspaint.

  137. CRaZY

    25 May 10
    4:31 am

    THANX MAN!

  138. finn Barry

    25 May 10
    6:02 pm

    can somone give me a link to get it and is it free

  139. Videogamer555

    31 May 10
    7:44 pm

    Icon is wrong. Possible hack? I have Windows XP on a computer and the icon has a GRAY pencil holder, NOT a tan one like this one has! Also the various pencils shown in the correct icon are various colors, NOT all tan like in this icon.

  140. prateek

    06 Jun 10
    8:19 pm

    thanks for helping me

  141. Bench260

    07 Jun 10
    10:06 am

    I was looking for mspaint. Thank you so much!
    Bench260 ||–||

  142. Jay

    07 Jun 10
    7:29 pm

    Thank You Thank YOU. Got the MS Paint back.

    YAY!!!!

  143. VaLy

    08 Jun 10
    5:38 pm

    You stupid losers, you compare this shit paint of xp with the win7 one?! You really have no brain, try to draw a line in this paint and to move it after…you can’t, in win7 you can do this and many more, this paint is bullshit

  144. Elaine

    11 Jun 10
    7:58 am

    hi! do you have a link for calculator? don’t know where my calc went though. by the way i used the link for the paint and it worked. thanks a bunch!

  145. serial_killer

    13 Jun 10
    9:14 pm

    thanks man!!!!

  146. hridey

    22 Jun 10
    7:18 pm

    great thanks very much

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  148. ha22… great thanks very much.. thanks man!!!!thanks man!!!!
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  149. Van

    23 Jun 10
    8:06 pm

    thanks for the download link. i run windows 7, and i really dislike its mspaint. is there a way to get vista version? any help is appriciated. cheers

  150. Loiro

    25 Jun 10
    8:43 am

    Thanks a lot you are a genius. I will never lost Microsoft Paint as long as Iive and all because of you. Once again thank you.

  151. mukesh

    25 Jun 10
    2:23 pm

    your ms paint is a good angoy

  152. mix

    26 Jun 10
    1:15 am

    Thank’s for Ms Paint

  153. katie

    08 Jul 10
    8:30 am

    where can i install panit? i want to paint on my computer lol.

  154. Tiffany

    09 Jul 10
    1:52 am

    When you recover it through start>run>mspaint, how do you make it an icon?

  155. tash

    11 Jul 10
    9:43 pm

    Is there a way to replace the Windows 7 version , with the XP version?

    Thanks
    ~Tash

  156. Tracy

    12 Jul 10
    4:31 am

    OH… MY… GOD

    you have saved us all! i was sick and tired of that crappy windows 7 paint program and now i have my old hobby back… DRAWING!

    i am now going to go cry tears of joy

    bye! and once again TTTTHHHHAAAANNNKKK YYYOOOOUUUU!!!!!!

  157. prasanna

    13 Jul 10
    12:37 am

    great man thanks ……………..

  158. Sagar Prashant Bhatt

    14 Jul 10
    8:48 pm

    Maybe these sites work : I have uploaded them on mediafire, and I think that maybe these are just icons.

    http://www.mediafire.com/?jjnymyyennj0gjt

    http://www.mediafire.com/file/jjnymyyennj0gjt/mspaint.exe

  159. Vishnu

    15 Jul 10
    12:15 am

    thank 4 ur info……its great

  160. Yashkar

    15 Jul 10
    4:11 am

    Thnx a million

  161. Nishad

    16 Jul 10
    5:20 pm

    Thanks a lot

  162. 12303

    19 Jul 10
    8:04 pm

    thnx a lot!!! i really need it :) :)
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  163. kjr222

    20 Jul 10
    10:48 pm

    hey thanks alot!!! i have windows 7 but i’m not used to the paint in it. :)

  164. MS Khan

    22 Jul 10
    2:16 pm

    Thanks a lot for help me to get back my ms paint….
    Thanks again. TC

  165. hazel

    25 Jul 10
    11:43 pm

    thanks so much !

    It really helps me a lot to recover my ms paint your such a great geek ..

  166. GREATFUL THNX

    27 Jul 10
    3:34 pm

    to me, the universe is balanced again, thank you

  167. asdf

    04 Aug 10
    12:03 pm

    mspanit

  168. RETSXEP

    04 Aug 10
    4:29 pm

    Sadly it didn’t work out for me at all.

    I have googlecrome and I’ve tried downloading the mspaint, but it seems that it won’t accept.

  169. double g

    04 Aug 10
    7:28 pm

    finalmente ho di nuovo paint e tutte le altre appliazioni windows!!:D

  170. double g

    04 Aug 10
    7:34 pm

    scusate ma che versione è???

  171. wow, you guys are stupid. thanks for the download, i want to draw in xp’s paint on win 7 : )

  172. superduperflop

    10 Aug 10
    4:36 am

    lol, thank you so much, i was without paint for months now, and I thought surely it’d be tedious to do.. so I just let it be..
    but you were great with it, lol, thanks again.

  173. cxfthsdfrh

    10 Aug 10
    10:26 am

    THE DOWNLOAD DOES NOT WORK

  174. Edwards

    11 Aug 10
    7:01 pm

    Excellent and many thanks. I stupidly deleted some files the other day and this has genuinely helped me out….

    Many thanks

  175. leeloo

    12 Aug 10
    1:26 am

    Thanks a lot. Works great :) I’ve been looking for the solution for this problem for weeks.

  176. Izzat Farhan

    13 Aug 10
    11:57 am

    thanks..thanks for sharing

  177. Thomas

    16 Aug 10
    6:32 am

    I just wanted to say THANK YOU! I some how deleted MS Paint and really wanted it back on my computer. Your directions were PERFECT. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  178. Stewi

    17 Aug 10
    6:48 pm

    thanks alot, my comp had a complete failure so i reinstalled windows but it dident have
    paint, calc any of the windows components
    ?????????????????????? weird because it had them before.

  179. Isabel

    20 Aug 10
    9:19 am

    I was trying to make my computer run faster n i accidently deleted PAINT n all the system GAMES :(

    Somebody please help me

  180. toria

    21 Aug 10
    9:13 am

    i need help makin a shortcut for mspaint and can’t figure it out:|

  181. Ram

    22 Aug 10
    9:33 pm

    Thank you soo much

  182. Daniel

    25 Aug 10
    4:36 pm

    Thnx a lot dude

  183. legonro

    26 Aug 10
    5:11 am

    omg i lost MSpaint a long time ago, god knows how and why, but you are the only person who has been of good help1

    THANKS A-FUCKING-LOT :D

  184. Albino Bob

    26 Aug 10
    8:36 am

    Bless you kind soul!

  185. moonfie

    27 Aug 10
    4:42 am

    Thank you so much! I’m on Windows 7 and the new Paint is an improvement in many ways but sometimes I just want good old fashioned MS Paint, so glad to be able to download it!

  186. Clara

    29 Aug 10
    2:03 am

    Thanks alot for the detailed guide. Really helps me alot.

  187. Ela

    02 Sep 10
    5:38 pm

    useful info, thx

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