Zoom7000

Apologies for the rule break, but I guess the poll has turned out to be quite useful as it is clear the preference (so far) is for Paint.NET - Hopefully Rick will take note and consider keeping version 4 and upwards as Paint.NET

Just a bit of fun for a Saturday morning, but I was just wondering what prompted the name design from the mixture of upper and lower case, to the all lower case. Perhaps Rick can shed some light. Put a poll in for fun. Personally, I prefer Paint.NET

Ah, that may help. At the moment I create the MSI using the following command: PaintDotNet.exe /createMSI DESKTOPSHORTCUT=0 So, I'll add that to the creator and see how it goes. Thanks for your continued support!

Thanks for the update Rick. The trouble I have is I integrate applications in to our Windows XP build so that once Windows has finished installing, the PC is ready to go without any further need for update or interaction. So, .NET is one of the first things installed and Paint.NET is one of the last things installed, it just increases the build time quite considerably. Am I reading correctly that running "ngen update" should reduce the installation time? I have just run ngen update on a live PC and the installation is still taking about an hour.

I administer a network at a high school. We have about 600 PCs of all different specs, ranging from Pentium 4s to Core i7's. I have noticed since version 3.5.10 of Paint.NET that it can take from 45 minutes to about an hour to install Paint.NET. Mainly it takes forever during the "Optimizing Paint.NET's performance for your system" I never noticed this problem with any of the previous versions of Paint.NET, only since 3.5.10. Any ideas what I can do to avoid the installation taking so long? All our PCs are running Windows XP with the latest .NET Framework 4 Extended (+ 1, 1.1, 2, 3, 3.5 etc)

Yup, thats the full crash log, here is another I just got... This text file was created because Paint.NET crashed. Please e-mail this file to paint.net@hotmail.com so we can diagnose and fix the problem. Application version: Paint.NET v3.08 (Final Release build 3.08.2708.22795) Time of crash: 12/06/2007 11:40:01 Application uptime: 00:01:10.9347760 OS Version: 5.1.2600.131072 Service Pack 2 Workstation x86 .NET Framework version: 2.0.50727.42 x86 Processor: 2x "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz" @ ~2992MHz Physical memory: 1014 MB Tablet PC: no Locale: pdnr.c: en-US, hklm: en-US, hkcu: n/a, cc: en-GB, cuic: en-US Exception details: System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sorry about that, I'm using 2 PCs in the office, the other one is P4 2.8 and 512 There's not really a solution on that page to help...

Paint.Net isn't letting me save any files. I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling, restarting... Here is the log it produces: This text file was created because Paint.NET crashed. Please e-mail this file to paint.net@hotmail.com so we can diagnose and fix the problem. Application version: Paint.NET v3.08 (Final Release build 3.08.2708.22795) Time of crash: 08/06/2007 15:42:46 Application uptime: 00:00:35.7072380 OS Version: 5.1.2600.131072 Service Pack 2 Workstation x86 .NET Framework version: 2.0.50727.42 x86 Processor: 2x "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz" @ ~2992MHz Physical memory: 1014 MB Tablet PC: no Locale: pdnr.c: en-US, hklm: en-US, hkcu: n/a, cc: en-GB, cuic: en-US Exception details: System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any ideas? I have tried to save an image (a screenshot) as a .PNG and .JPEG - No luck, just crashes PDN and produces that same log everytime. Got plenty of Virtual Memory, nearly 60Gb HDD space. CPU - Intel P4 2.8Ghz RAM - 512Mb GPU - Intel 82865G

Paint.Net isn't letting me save any files. I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling, restarting... Here is the log it produces: This text file was created because Paint.NET crashed. Please e-mail this file to paint.net@hotmail.com so we can diagnose and fix the problem. Application version: Paint.NET v3.08 (Final Release build 3.08.2708.22795) Time of crash: 08/06/2007 15:42:46 Application uptime: 00:00:35.7072380 OS Version: 5.1.2600.131072 Service Pack 2 Workstation x86 .NET Framework version: 2.0.50727.42 x86 Processor: 2x "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz" @ ~2992MHz Physical memory: 1014 MB Tablet PC: no Locale: pdnr.c: en-US, hklm: en-US, hkcu: n/a, cc: en-GB, cuic: en-US Exception details: System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any ideas? I have tried to save an image (a screenshot) as a .PNG and .JPEG - No luck, just crashes PDN and produces that same log everytime. Got plenty of Virtual Memory, nearly 60Gb HDD space. CPU - Intel P4 2.8Ghz RAM - 512Mb GPU - Intel 82865G

Problem Fixed! Ran the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility to get rid of the old version and new version Installed fine!

I'm trying to uninstall version 2.5 of Paint.net on a laptop. I didn't even know it was there. I was trying to install 2.72 as I normally do, and I get the following error: SetupNgen.exe - Common Language Runtime Debugging Services Application has generated an exception that could not be handled. Process id=0xe08 (3592), Thread id=0xea0(3744) Click OK to terminate the application Click CANCEL to debug the application When I click OK, I get the following: There is a problem with Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. So, it then fails to install. Is there anyway I can manually get rid of it?

Thats brilliant Rick, Thanks for that! Keep up the great work! Zoom7000

Just installed 2.6 Final using the command line: PaintDotNet.x86.msi /qn DESKTOPSHORTCUT=0 Works Fine! Thanks Rick!

Thanks for that Rick, just tested this on my network using SMS. Works fine. Just a quick question, are the following properties still valid? DESKTOPSHORTCUT=0 JPGPNGBMPEDITOR=1 TGAEDITOR=1 CHECKFORUPDATES=0 CHECKFORBETAS=0 PDNUPDATING=0 SKIPCLEANUP=0 I'd like to be able to set Paint.Net as my default editor for JPG, PNG, BMP etc, and also I'd like the option not to have the Installation put a shortcut on the desktop. So is this all still possible? Thanks Zoom7000