Jessicasdd Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 (edited) When I use Paint.net in Windows XP it is great. When I use Paint.net in Windows 7 it is - well I won't say. Let me rephrase - I can't use Paint.net in Windows 7. Does anyone know how to stop the "tool" windows from going full screen? I have attached a print screen. That is what Paint.net looks like when it is first opened. I can close those windows so that I can see Paint.net but then I have no tools available without searching through menus or opening the window, selecting the tool I want, and closing the window so I can use Paint.net again. This is not working. Please help as i am on the latest version and thought upgrading to it would solve the problem, but it didn't. Thank you in advance, Jessica Edited April 10, 2012 by Jessicasdd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Uninstall ATI Hydravision. BTW I also got your e-mail with all the yelling and screaming in it. That was not necessary. 1 Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessicasdd Posted April 10, 2012 Author Share Posted April 10, 2012 Per our emails - Thank you, Rick, for understanding. To the Forum: I don't have ATI Hydravision installed on my computer. I have an ATI video card but the Hydravision I do not have. This has been an issue for 2 years now. It is frustrating when a program works on XP but not on 7. Granted it is slow on XP but at least it works. I am using the same computer for both. I have Windows 7 with virtual XP. So if it is not a Windows 7 issue and it's not a paint.net issue then it can't be a video card issue as it works fine on XP with the same video card. I have tried using Corel and it works for some things but Paint.net just works better for certain things. Well for most things. I got the tools window and the layers window to shrink properly. The history window and the color pallette are still going full screen so I closed them to get done what I had to get done. I feel that there has got to be a way around this because it works fine in XP with that same video card. And if I can get two of the offending windows to shrink why won't the other two? So I tried opening and closing Paint.net in a variety of ways and discovered something else. If I close all the little windows - tools, history, palette, and layers - and then close Paint.net when I reopen Paint.net it opens fine, but with no little windows. I can then use the function keys to get them to open correctly or I am at least able to shrink them to their proper size. But if I forget to close those windows before closing Paint.net then when I open Paint.net those windows open full screen and can't be shrunk. Any ideas? Thanks, Jessica Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Maybe you have some other kind of "multimonitor manager" or "virtual desktop" type of utility installed. That's what ATI Hydravision is, so maybe you have something else but with a different name attached to it. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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