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by brianbooher

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I am having an issue with getting Paint to work on a user account.
When I log into the computer with my account, Paint will work fine.

I have tried the process of creating a new user account on the computer when the logs in, but its the same error.

The error is "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022)"

even with a new account, it will not work for him.

Any ideas of how to fix this?

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by jiminpa

When you created the new account did you name it the exact same thing? Technically this should not matter but... try creating a new account for him and naming it something different. Option number 2. Reinstall paint using his account.

by brianbooher

By account I mean profile. My bad.

Basically its simple, I go into the Documents and Settings, find the users real profile, and change it with .bak at the end.

When the user logs in, Windows 2000 looks for the profile, but cannot find it, so it creates a new folder.

What is strange is that Paint won't work on that new profile, even when I didn't save anything from the old profile.

by demosthanese

it sounds wierd but have privaledges for paint been revoked somehow?

by brianbooher

I have given the user full control permissions on the program, since I figured there is not much you can do with Paint.

Even with full permissions it still does not work.

by seanferd

When in the user's account, go to Add/Remove Programs > Windows Setup and install Paint from the CD or partition or directory where the setup files reside.

If you cannot access the Add/Remove Programs cpl from the user account, right click on anything you need to get into the cpl and select RunAs (administrator). Possibly in Safe Mode.

by brianbooher

I did the Run As.. command and logged in with my account to Paint and it popped up.

I have changed the permissions to allow full access, but it still comes up with the same error.

This is a Windows 2000 machine and I cannot remove and reinstall Paint.

by seanferd

but adding it for the user, using the user's account. This is where you would runas admin if the user cannot add the app.

My only other suggestion at this point would be to get a copy of Dependency Walker from MS or a similar program, find which files Paint depends on, then make sure permissions to run those files is granted to the user.

Actually, you can get any version right here:
http://www.dependencywalker.com/
I really don't have any other guess as to what is going on here. Missing any of the files required for Paint should probably cause an issue elsewhere. Maybe I'll screw around with this on my 2k machine, if I can get to it.

Failing all else, there are tons of free painting and graphics apps out there. Maybe try one of them.

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