Ghost Ranger

You're missing that clicking on "check for updates..." in the help menu starts a update check, regardless of whether any boxes are checked. All I'm saying is that given both of the above, you would expect that neither of them would search for betas when doing a "manual" update check. However, the second combo does. Therefore, it should be changed so the options are independent of one another to avoid confusion.

No, I'm saying that you can't change "Also check for pre-release..." w/o checking "Automatically check for newer versions..." first. 8)

For the update options, the option to check for beta releases shouldn't be grayed out. That way you can manually check for updates and still get beta releases and/or not have to check the box above it to be able to get pre-releases.

Someone should make a thread called "Paint.NET Secrets" or something along those lines...

What exactly do you mean? Can you give us the steps to reproduce what happens?

Also, I remember having this issue once.

By any chance, did you happen to install any of the Firefox 3 alpha versions on top of, w/o getting rid of FF 2? They might be related...

see this: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=20591 basically, you need to select something before copying.

The password thing was just an example, it could be email, name, or any other information that is part of a picture. And although there is a way to very easily 'fix' the image, not everyone knows about it. So some other Paint.NET user could unwillingly compromise information that they would rather keep private.

This should be fixed ASAP, as it could potentially compromise one's security. For example, if I had a picture with a password in it, after editing it out, you would still be able see it!

Do you have Avatars disabled in the user control panel?

I was testing out this plug-in, and noticed something quite strange. If you save a file (.wdp) in which about 73% or more of the pixels are transparent, saving it at a 32-bit depth at 99% quality results in a larger file size than saving it at 100% quality. This effect also seems to amplify as more transparent pixels are added. So, for example saving a 400x300 resolution file where 73.333% the pixels are transparent results in less than a 1024 byte difference, while saving a completely transparent 400x300 file at 100% and 99% quality result in 736 and 33,028 byte file sizes, respectively. That a 44.875 times bigger file size, at less quality.

He probably got malware when he went to download Paint.NET, from some other site.

You do realize how dumb it is not to keep your programs up to date, right? I mean, who cares about the latest definition files for my antivirus, they are just tiny updates. What Rick and david says is true, you should update, as the update isn't tiny just because it only increased the version by 0.05. Go here: http://www.getpaint.net/roadmap.html and you will see that there have been more than 40 changes since 3.05 was released.

Get the letter in your clipboard by copying it, whenever you want to use it, press Ctrl+V. Sadly, there appears to be no other shortcut that I can find (i.e. Alt+123).