Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Microsoft Paint (PBRUSH) Text Toolbar Disappears

I use Microsoft Paint (pbrush) a lot. I recently had the problem that my Text Toolbar just disappeared. I tried selecting and unselecting "Text Toolbar" from the view menu, but nothing worked.



You can fix this from Regedit. The keys are:




My Computer/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Applets/Paint/Text/PositionX

and PositionY


From Regedit you can set both of these to 0 and the text toolbar will show up on screen again.

Posted by Timothy Chen Allen at 10:58 AM

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 26, 2008 at 11:45 PM

    Thanks a lot this fixed my problem; it was driving crazy.

    Irwin

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  2. Timothy Chen AllenApril 27, 2008 at 12:32 AM

    Yeah, this was a lot of fun. I think I get a lot of these kinds of problems because I run a dual-monitor setup. The Registry is usually a good place to look for this kind of thing.

    Glad it worked out for you.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 2, 2008 at 1:31 AM

    my goodness! you're a genius! thank you so much... i was so frustrated for so long!

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  4. Timothy Chen AllenDecember 5, 2008 at 10:41 PM

    Ho ho, I'm no genius! Okay, a little... or maybe I was just frustrated by this silly problem!

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