Opening pics with MS Paint

ms paint is only designed for bmp and pcx bitmaps if you have jpeg as an option it is because you have a version of office on the computer that installed a filter for jpeg. in order to change to jpg you would probably need to recompile the exec. an easier way would be to download a free viewer/editor

Install Irfanview ( freeware ) from ,
http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474/english.htm

Also , on the above page , click on Irfanview?
Go to 3 , PlugIn required ( check this page for download )
Personally , I downloaded all of them .

After installing , go to
Options>Properties>Extensions , click on select all .

As luck will have it , just happened to see this , while was looking for something else . See if helps .

http://www.pcnineoneone.com/tweaks/tweekz1a.html#paint

Add Functionality To MS Paint!
Do you occasionally do some light graphics editing? MS Paint is remarkably good at minor stuff that is just too cumbersome for larger graphics editors. Unfortunately, depending on the particulars of your Win9x installation, you may find that you can only save your edits as bitmaps. And that's if you can edit them at all; some MS Paint installations won't even open a GIF file, much less edit it. But here is a way to enhance MS Paint so that you can edit GIFs, JPGs as well as BMP files. The trick is to use an older version of the MS Paint executable. This is how to do it:

Download Paint95.zip to a temporary directory. Make note of where you've stored it.
Launch Windows Explorer and go to C:\Program Files\Accessories and locate Mspaint.exe.
Copy Mspaint.exe to the hidden folder C:\Windows\Sysbckup. Now you have a back up of Paint in case you are unhappy with the results if this tweak.
Now unzip the file you just downloaded to C:\Program Files\Accessories, overwriting your standard OEM version of Mspaint.exe.
The next time you launch Paint you should be able to edit a broader range of graphics files.

go to window explorer...click tools..option..
click file type..search for the file which will be open with mspaint..

BMP..edit it..and modify..

I'm not looking for another program to download. I have no problem opening or editing JPEGs. The only thing I'm looking for is a way to change the DEFAULT "Files of type" from "Bitmap Files" to "JPEG" When I click on File/Open in Paint, in the "OPEN" dialogue box "Bitmap Files (*.bmp)" appears in the "Files of type" drop down box as a default. I can pull down the drop down box and choose "JPEG" but I would like to find a way to change the default from BMP to JPEG so I don't have to change this everytime I want ot open a JPEG in PAINT.

Does anyone know if there is an option or a registry fix to change this default from BMP to JPEG?

jaboy means Folder Options .

Here is another way .

Left click on any jpeg file to hilite it, next hold your shiftkey down and right click on the hilited ,jpeg file, release the shiftkey and click "Open with", scroll down to mspaint and click it to hilite it, put a checkmark in the "allways use this program etc," box,
click "OK". This will reassociate your jpeg files with "mspaint" and you will now have no problems opening them.

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