ZyKro 1 Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 (edited) One day I started paint.net up and it usually freezes for about a second or two when I load it up, but recently it has been freezing and not responding. I usually have to start it up and exit out of it several times before it decides to work. It is getting pretty annoying since it is my main graphics program I use. It does work, but only after I have restarted it several times. I appreciate the help in advance. EDIT: I have also already tried the PDN repair and it still didn't work. Edited September 26, 2017 by ZyKro Quote Link to post Share on other sites
toe_head2001 1,791 Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 If it freezes, how do you "exit out"? Do you have many plugins installed? Quote My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to post Share on other sites
ZyKro 1 Posted September 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 When it says "Not Responding" in the bar, I usually can click the "X" button on the window several times to close out. And yes, I do have a decent amount of plugins installed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
toe_head2001 1,791 Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 1 hour ago, ZyKro said: And yes, I do have a decent amount of plugins installed. hmm, this can read as an oxymoron. Please just quantify them. Can you also post your system information as listed in the paint.net settings? Settings -> Diagnostics -> Copy to clipboard Quote My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to post Share on other sites
ZyKro 1 Posted September 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 I have 129 plugins installed. Application paint.net 4.0.17 (Final 4.17.6411.1908) Build Date Friday, July 21, 2017 Install type Classic Hardware accelerated rendering (GPU) True Animations True DPI 96.00 (1.00x scale) Language en-US OS Windows 10 x64 (10.0.14393.0) .NET Runtime 4.0.30319.42000 Physical Memory 8,082 MB CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6100U CPU @ 2.30GHz Speed ~2304 MHz Cores / Threads 2 / 4 Features DEP, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4_1, SSE4_2, XSAVE Video Card Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 Dedicated Video RAM 128 MB Dedicated System RAM 0 MB Shared System RAM 4,041 MB Vendor ID 0x8086 Device ID 0x1916 Subsystem ID 0x81EB103C Revision 7 LUID 0x0000FCD8 Flags None Outputs 1 Video Card Microsoft Basic Render Driver Dedicated Video RAM 0 MB Dedicated System RAM 0 MB Shared System RAM 4,041 MB Vendor ID 0x1414 Device ID 0x008C Subsystem ID 0x00000000 Revision 0 LUID 0x0000FFC5 Flags Software Outputs 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ego Eram Reputo 2,754 Posted September 27, 2017 Report Share Posted September 27, 2017 Try renaming your /Effects/ folder (to something like EffectsABC) then start paint.net. Is it any quicker to load? Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to post Share on other sites
Joshua Lamusga 263 Posted September 27, 2017 Report Share Posted September 27, 2017 Consider using high priority. The solution below from answers.microsoft.com does this with notepad; the solution only affects the shortcut: Quote Create a shortcut to Notepad. Right click the shortcut, select Properties and add the following to the beginning of the Target box:%windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c start /highAs an example, a shortcut to notepad will look like this normally:%windir%\system32\notepad.exeAdding the above will make it:%windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c start /high %windir%\system32\notepad.exe Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rick Brewster 1,753 Posted September 27, 2017 Report Share Posted September 27, 2017 I'm curious, what happens if you click on the Shapes tool when you start up? Also, when Paint.NET freezes like this, is it using up a lot of CPU in Task Manager? Or is it just parked at 0%? Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to post Share on other sites
ZyKro 1 Posted September 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2017 19 hours ago, Ego Eram Reputo said: Try renaming your /Effects/ folder (to something like EffectsABC) then start paint.net. Is it any quicker to load? It loads up faster and does not freeze, but I lose all my new plugins. 5 hours ago, Rick Brewster said: I'm curious, what happens if you click on the Shapes tool when you start up? Also, when Paint.NET freezes like this, is it using up a lot of CPU in Task Manager? Or is it just parked at 0%? I'm not sure yet. Paint.NET started finally after several tries of using the suggestions and testing, so I will check out the Shapes tool next time I can. It didn't appear to be using very much of the CPU. Paint.NET seems to work fine after I get it working, but it takes several tries. It is probably the plugins. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BoltBait 3,235 Posted September 27, 2017 Report Share Posted September 27, 2017 Can you give us a screenshot of what was in your Effects folder? Quote Click to play: Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and how about a Computer Dominos Game Link to post Share on other sites
ZyKro 1 Posted September 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 (edited) 23 hours ago, BoltBait said: Can you give us a screenshot of what was in your Effects folder? Yes. EDIT: Also I deleted some plugins to try to free up some space on it, but it didn't work. And clicking on the shapes tool didn't do anything on startup. It just froze like normal. Edited September 28, 2017 by ZyKro Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZyKro 1 Posted September 29, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 I just uninstalled all my plugins that I had and that fixed the problem. It turns out I had too many, which I thought, but I had a lot of good plugins, but I installed a pack for now though. Hopefully I don't make the same mistake again. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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