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MS Paint is here to stay

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Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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etatoby wrote: post #186
positivecomment wrote: post #81

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When that "Get Office" thing first popped-up, I was sure my PC was infected with malware and came to the brink of formatting my hard drive. Later came the random console pop-up from the automatic WSL updates [1] and then I did panic enough to actually format all the things but that's another story. [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/841

The random console popups give me the jeebies! I still don't know what causes them. Never had such things on older Windows/Lenovo machines.

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Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by orf »

sathackr wrote: post #228
orf wrote: post #222

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Sounds like a bad IT department that doesn't know how to configure group policy rather than anything to do with Microsoft to be honest.

One main paramount of security is to reduce your attack surface. One of the first steps to that is to uninstall/remove things that don't belong or that you will not use. An ad-riddled(with ads likely served by a relatively insecure ad network) game is not something that belongs in a corporate network. Try removing CandyCrushSaga and Facebook, and XBoxIdentityProvider(among many others)...they come right back after th…

Yes, and the person I was replying to works in a place that seems to allow users to install random software from the internet. Thats 99.99% of your attack surface, why not restrict that?

I'm not going to get into the details of sandboxing here, but needless to say managed applications running in a sandbox are a big improvement over unmanaged, unsigned applications running with admin rights.

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by unscaled »

sathackr wrote: post #228
orf wrote: post #222

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Sounds like a bad IT department that doesn't know how to configure group policy rather than anything to do with Microsoft to be honest.

One main paramount of security is to reduce your attack surface. One of the first steps to that is to uninstall/remove things that don't belong or that you will not use. An ad-riddled(with ads likely served by a relatively insecure ad network) game is not something that belongs in a corporate network. Try removing CandyCrushSaga and Facebook, and XBoxIdentityProvider(among many others)...they come right back after th…

Well, if your policy allows installing random apps from the Internet but forbids installing sandboxed and vetted apps, then you're not making any sense, regardless of whether the latter type of apps may still be a risk.

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by gambiting »

hougaard wrote: post #67
peterburkimsher wrote: post #7

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I think so. That also means that for shared or strictly managed computers, it won't be installed or installable. No more screenshots on the hospital PC, then.

Shift-WindowsKey+S is the new screen snipping tool. Built right into the OS.

Except that it fails to capture screens larger than about 2000x1000, it just fails silently - you select your full 2K monitor and the tool just doesn't do anything. Printscreen can capture even multiple 4K monitor and paste all of them into Paint - the snipping tool fails to capture even two 2K monitors which is really annoying at my work.

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by jccalhoun »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #82
hougaard wrote: post #67

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Shift-WindowsKey+S is the new screen snipping tool. Built right into the OS.

Huh. I just tried it. A snipping interface came up and let me select a rectangle of the screen. Then, none of the following things happened: - A message telling me where the picture went. - The picture showing up on the desktop. - The picture showing up in "Documents". - The picture showing up in "Pictures". But, I was able to recover the screenshot by... opening Paint, and pasting from the clipboard! That's not a so…

There is also the version of the snipping tool with a gui. you can hit the windows key and type snip to find it. I don't know if there is a quick keyboard shortcut to bring up that version. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13776/windows-use-s...

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by jccalhoun »

faeyanpiraat wrote: post #173

Okay so when I first heard this, I was kind of enraged, because I use paint daily for screenshots, ad-hoc cropping and stuff. And when I tried Paint3D in the past it was garbage. Someone in this thread said that it is actually easy to crop with it, and I tried again, and yes it is actually a bearable experience, but scaling the image gives a crappy quality, so it is a no-go. Then I got the Win+Shift+S screen clipping…

there is also a version of the snipping tool with a gui https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13776/windows-use-s...

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by bradenb »

fiatjaf wrote: post #237

Is there an alternative to MS Paint that can be easily installed and used? Not GIMP or other complicated things, I want my 4-year-old son to use it.

I have found Paint.NET to be my go-to middle-ground image editor. I think it is more than simple enough for your 4-year-old son.
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