MSPaint Lockup (Vista Version on 7) ApphangB1

I'm an avid user of MS Paint, and though I found the 7 version of Paint to be somewhat lacking, I managed to replace it with my previous vista paint from my original laptop. It has been this way for months, and has run perfectly stable up until the 20th, when it started locking up.

I've tried deleting the registry keys already and nothing seems to have worked so far.

The only correlation I can find is that it seems to lock after I "save as," sometimes immedietely.

Here's what the Reliability Monitor has to say about it:

Description
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Faulting Application Path: C:\Windows\System32\mspaint.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: mspaint.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Application Timestamp: 47918ead
Hang Signature: d020
Hang Type: 16384
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: d020418fe7c77d3a9c60076615d14ead
Additional Hang Signature 2: 6065
Additional Hang Signature 3: 6065ca1b358c11ed262ee2eb2692d738
Additional Hang Signature 4: 8ad3
Additional Hang Signature 5: 8ad34443d034f76cdff17dfb6bc98114
Additional Hang Signature 6: 6300
Additional Hang Signature 7: 630022042f617865db49f51d6d8e1ae2

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Alrighty, here you go.

In the meantime I've used the command prompt's error scan to reset paint back to the windows 7 version which, while wonky for me, is manageable. Though I have a backup of vistapaint in case you find out, and can show me how to fix what's wrong.

TheZman said:

Alrighty, here you go.

In the meantime I've used the command prompt's error scan to reset paint back to the windows 7 version which, while wonky for me, is manageable. Though I have a backup of vistapaint in case you find out, and can show me how to fix what's wrong.

Hundreds and hundreds of "BonJour" serivce errors. I would disable (or remove) at least to test.

The other (and I have personal experience with this gem) is the HP Connection Manager. I ALWAYS scrape the HP bloatware first.

No "errors" relating to paint.

zigzag3143 said:

Hundreds and hundreds of "BonJour" serivce errors. I would disable (or remove) at least to test.

The other (and I have personal experience with this gem) is the HP Connection Manager. I ALWAYS scrape the HP bloatware first.

No "errors" relating to paint.

Apparently BonJour screw-ups are extremely common and nothing to worry about from what I've read. I need it to run iTunes and a few other programs anyways.

I have uninstalled the connection manager. Perhaps that program was the reason my browsers (and everything else that isn't skype) would occasionally just stop connecting to the internet when I'm on campus. Is it okay to remove some of the other HP crap as well, like support assistant?

TheZman said:

zigzag3143 said:

Hundreds and hundreds of "BonJour" serivce errors. I would disable (or remove) at least to test.

The other (and I have personal experience with this gem) is the HP Connection Manager. I ALWAYS scrape the HP bloatware first.

No "errors" relating to paint.

Apparently BonJour screw-ups are extremely common and nothing to worry about from what I've read. I need it to run iTunes and a few other programs anyways.

I have uninstalled the connection manager. Perhaps that program was the reason my browsers (and everything else that isn't skype) would occasionally just stop connecting to the internet when I'm on campus. Is it okay to remove some of the other HP crap as well, like support assistant?

it is hard to determine what the actual problem is from just the event viewer logs. BonJour was listed as a type 1 error, but I suspect the issue was connection Mgr.

I hate HP bloatware

After removing some of HP's bloatware I downgraded paint to the Vista version again and tried it out, but I'm still having the same problem. Is there another way to find out what's going on?

TheZman said:

After removing some of HP's bloatware I downgraded paint to the Vista version again and tried it out, but I'm still having the same problem. Is there another way to find out what's going on?

Again it is a combination of things and we need the newest DMPS. Does seem to be a lot of trouble to go through for mspaint. Your call of course.

zigzag3143 said:

Again it is a combination of things and we need the newest DMPS. Does seem to be a lot of trouble to go through for mspaint. Your call of course.

Maybe for most people it's not really important, but it's one of my most used programs.

TheZman said:

zigzag3143 said:

Again it is a combination of things and we need the newest DMPS. Does seem to be a lot of trouble to go through for mspaint. Your call of course.

Maybe for most people it's not really important, but it's one of my most used programs.

If your hardware support you should be able to run it in a virtual machine.