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Although I still don't understand why Paint.net is behaving this way on my computer, I just figured out how to get it to work! Animations! I unselected all the check marks on the user interface screen in the settings, and then it now worked. I then rechecked them one by one and tested and as soon as I checked ANIMATIONS the program immediately freezes, even on the settings page! I don't know what this will affect, but at least I can use the program. Any ideas on why it would do this? What am I missing out on if I don't have Animations checked? Thanks again for everyones help!

I noticed the diagnostic section in the settings so am posting here for anyone that may find it useful: Application paint.net 4.0.5 (Final 4.5.5454.39504) Build Date Sunday, December 7, 2014 Hardware accelerated rendering (GPU) False Animations True DPI 96.00 (1.00x scale) Language en-US OS Windows 8.1 (6.3.9600.0) .NET Runtime 4.0.30319.34014 Physical Memory 8,092 MB CPU AMD FX-6100 Six-Core Processor Architecture x64 (64-bit) Process Mode 64-bit Speed ~3576 MHz Cores / Threads 6 Features DEP, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4_1, SSE4_2, XSAVE Video Card AMD Radeon HD 6450 Dedicated Video RAM 1,011 MB Dedicated System RAM 0 MB Shared System RAM 3,840 MB Vendor ID 0x1002 Device ID 0x6779 Subsystem ID 0x21251462 Revision 0 LUID 0x00007FF2 Flags None Outputs 2 Video Card Microsoft Basic Render Driver Dedicated Video RAM 0 MB Dedicated System RAM 0 MB Shared System RAM 256 MB Vendor ID 0x1414 Device ID 0x008C Subsystem ID 0x00000000 Revision 0 LUID 0x00009670 Flags Software Outputs 0

Thanks for the good suggestion Pixey. Unfortunately it did not work. I first tried the repair feature in Win.8 for that program. Didn't seem to do anything so I uninstalled, and then installed from the link you provided. Still having the same problem. Anyone have any other ideas?

I also tried limiting the processor core affinity to only one core and that didn't have any affect. I also tried setting the priority to high priority and real time and neither helped. I still don't how I can get paint.net to work...?

Pixey and Rick, Thanks for the fast reply! The video was actually taken with the Hardware accelerated rendering off because I read that as a suggestion in another area of this forum. I had the problem before and still have it. Any other suggestions?

I tried uploading a version to the screencastomatic website that I used to record this. I think that you should be able to see it with this link: http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/conInlepts

okay, I tried to upload but it is telling me that "Error You aren't permitted to upload this kind of file", even though it is only 205 KB, which is below the cited 256KB file size limit. The file is a mp4.0 Now what do I do? It is becoming a whole new problem just trying to show you the problem. I wrote this before I realized that it wouldn't accept my upload...perhaps you will find it useful: The most important thing to notice is how once I started something in Paint.net, I could click (as you can hear the mouse in the back ground), but it doesn't take effect until paint.net is in the background (i.e. when I click on the desktop). Thanks!

I feels kind of strange sending a screenshot of a frozen screen since a screenshot is inherently frozen. Is there a way to attach a short video? Actually, I was planning on attaching a screenshot anyway, but I am not sure how to attach a picture on this website either. Could you let me know how to do this? Thanks!

When I open Paint.net I can click on stuff, but as soon as I paste in an image, it freezes. What is weird is that it only freezes when I have it as the active window. WHen I click on another window, the dotted selection line unfreezes and start its racing again. Then I can click on something, but it freezes and doesn't acknowledge my click until I active another application window (like chrome). Version info: Paint.net 4.0.5 (Final 4.5.5454.39504) Win.8.1 Pro 64-bit Computer is new desktop with 8 gb ram, AMD 6-core processor 3.30Ghz, Graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 6450 Thanks for any help you can provide! Lawrence