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by waltknochjr

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I have a Dell Dimension 733 runing Win2k. I cannot open mspaint. It says, "mspaint.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program". This happens every time I try. I ran SFC /scannow. With Win98 you could go into Add/Remove Windows components and install/uninstall it. However, with Win2k that is not an option. Any ideas how I can fix it (short of reinstalling Win2k)?

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by dklippert

http://tinyurl.com/1g0q

Or

Start>Run, type msconfig and click on 'extract single file' extract mspaint.exe
from your istallation cd to c:\program files\accesories.
If it doesn't help extract MFC42.DLL to c:\windows\system

by waltknochjr

I have used msconfig before, but not in Windows 2000. I tried it on 5 different computers and they all give me the error, "Cannot find the file msconfig (or one of its components)".

by dklippert

You can copy msconfig from a W98 machine.
The Add remove Windows components is an icon on the left side of the Add/Remove dialog box.

by waltknochjr

I copied 4 msconfig files over. It will run, but not correctly. I get several errors and when it load I only have 2 tabs (General, Startup). I even tried it on a machine with dual boot (Win98 and Win2k). It still does not work properly in Windows 2000. I copied 2 msconfig files over from a Windows XP machine and it loads without error. However, when I tell it to expand those files from the CD, it does nothing. Then I copied the mspaint files and MFC42.dll files from another Win2k machine to mine. It still does not work, but I get a different error message, "mspaint.exe has generated erorrs and will be closed by windows". If you have any other ideas please email me. wknoch@granttower.com

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