danlock

This is awesome! Thanks! I've been with PdN since the beginning. The loss of support for XP was one of the main reasons I built a new PC when I did back in early 2014. @Rick BrewsterI understand your reasons for discontinuing support for the given OSs and variants. I support it, even. It means you'll have more time and resources for making Paint.NET even better! Out of curiosity, though (because I lack sufficient knowledge about minutiae that might cause incompatibility), what exists in Win10+ that will make v4.4 fail on a fully-upgraded Win8.1 x64 with any necessary OS upgrades installed? If you're not going to support 8.1, that's fine (and it's what you've already indicated!), but some software works on my 8.1 that claims 10 is the minimum. A requirement for DirectX 12 would definitely rule out 8.1, for example, or a necessary version of .NET that can't be installed on 8.1. I ask this with sincerity and no desire to start any sort of arguments or flame wars (so please stay away, trolls and miscreants!). I'm merely curious. ...and my upgrade to Win10 is likely imminent regardless, but that doesn't negate my question. Thank you!

Thank you! Yes; it's likely that I was unable to remember or find my original username/password or the recovery data was borked in some manner, perhaps using an email address to which I no longer had access. ...or my data was backed up on a floppy disk or other medium I was no longer able to read. OR I had no posts with my old account (unlikely but possible), which would have caused it to be purged it as part of the migration from phpBB to IPB, forcing me to create a new account along with the other members who wanted to be part of the community and had accounts but no posts prior to the migration purge.

(Any archive extractor worth its salt will allow you to open or extract an archive with or without an extension, regardless of the extension's contents or lack thereof!) Happy to hear that reuploading fixed the problem with the name; thanks for your hard work! So many people who never say anything appreciate what you do more than you know! Thanks from all of us! Hurm. Looking at both my post count and date of joining causes me to ponder. OT: When did the paint.net forum's format and/or hosting provider change, requiring users to sign up for new accounts? I seem to recall that happening, but I definitely remember those types of upheavals on other forums, so I might merely confusing this forum with another. Query: Can someone with a more intimate knowledge of the history of the paint.net forum than the one I remember please tell me whether that occurred here at some point and relate some details? Rick? BoltBait? others? Thank you very much in advance!