kenhantman Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Paint.net is great. But I'm having a problem. Suddenly my Tools box (or window it that's the term) and my Layers box won't open when I click on the little icons in upper right or when I hit the F5 and F7 keys. The Colors and History boxes still open normally. I'm using 4.0.9 in Windows 7, Chrome. I rebooted but no change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Split from old topic and moved to correct forum. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRON67 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Try to repair PDN with PDNrepair.exe in the Installation directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenhantman Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 Thank you so much for trying to help me. Under Install/Uninstall Programs in Windows I selected Paint.net and hit Repair. This downloaded something from dotPDNLLC in about ten seconds. I rebooted but this did not fix it. Is PDNrepair.exe something different and if so how do I find it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 If you have a multi-monitor setup, look on your other monitor, sometimes they show up there. Look carefully around your screen. Sometimes they are barely visible around the edges. Or, perhaps they are under your task bar. Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRON67 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 (edited) Under Install/Uninstall Programs in Windows I selected Paint.net and hit Repair. No. Wrong way. I've said "in the installation directory", so the path should normally be: C:\Program Files\Paint.NET4. There is a program Pdnrepair.exe and you have to start it. You can also click on START in the taskbar and type in the search field pdnrepair.exe. It should appear in the list and you can click it. Edited March 30, 2016 by IRON67 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenhantman Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 I just uninstalled and reinstalled Paint.net and still have the same problem. This is weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 *facepalm* This back and forth could go on for too long. Try running this file. Reset Windows.zip Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\paint.net] "Window/Tools/Bounds"=- "Window/Colors/Bounds"=- "Window/History/Bounds"=- "Window/Layers/Bounds"=- 1 Quote (September 25th, 2023) Sorry about any broken images in my posts. I am aware of the issue. My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenhantman Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 It is now fixed. Iron67 and BoltBait thank you! Somehow my monitors which had been mirrored became extended on their own. I ran the PDNrepair.exe per Iron67 and it restored the function to the boxes but they were split off on the other monitor. So putting what you both said together it is now working. How and why it or my computer changef on its own remains a mystery to me. As Arthur C. Clarke said the science of today is the mystery and awe of the past. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRON67 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 (edited) As Arthur C. Clarke said the science of today is the mystery and awe of the past. Thanks! If I remember correctly, he said, that Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Thanks for feedback. Edited March 31, 2016 by IRON67 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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