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I can't find my Color palette


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Hi all.

 

      It is a matter of urgency, but I cannot find my color palette in Paint.net, and I've noted I cannot reset the window. I have uninstalled and reinstalled but the settings stay the same and the palette doesn't return. Can I get some help please? It is Urgent because I need it for work

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If you are comfortable with working with your system registry, you can try deleting "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\paint.net\Window/Colors/Bounds". That will reset the Color Palette window location.

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Can someone list directions as to how I can delete the file from my registry? And in advance thanks guys, the help means a lot.

 

I just tried dragging the color pallet off the PDN screen and it did. I didn't even know about that. I then deleted the reg-key that toehead wrote about and that did restore it, so that is an option if you can't find your color pallet.

 

Go to "Start" > "Run" and type: regedit  (then hit enter). Then navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\paint.net\Window/Colors/Bounds" select that key and hit delete. Restart PDN.

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I took a screenshot but the sharing features on this forum are being weird. Anyway, I have taken a screenshot that shows the palette just outside the window itself. I run a single monitor system so that is why I did not locate it in the first place. I just need to figure out how to drag it back into the window.

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For realz? racerx even posted the basic steps to reset the window location. Just run this file, and be done with it.

 

Color Palette reset.zip

 

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\paint.net]
"Window/Colors/Bounds"=-
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The reason I have trouble accessing the Registry is because I am running windows 10. The system is not engineered in the way that I can access everything as easily as I used to. Plus I run a single monitor setup.

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Ladies and gentlemen, all is well! Special thanks to Toe_head as it was his file that did the job. My color palette is now visible again. Thank you to everyone for your help and support an I will certainly be using this site for plugins and such to make my job much easier. Good day everyone!

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The reason I have trouble accessing the Registry is because I am running windows 10. The system is not engineered in the way that I can access everything as easily as I used to. Plus I run a single monitor setup.

 

What does Windows 10 have to do with anything? regedit is basically the same since Windows 95.

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Yeah, I posted the above screen shot in Win10. By default win 10 doesn't have a "Run" link in the start menu. I use Classic Shell however and it provides a "Run" link in the start menu just like older versions of windows. A search for regedit.exe will yield the same results.

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