Microsoft Paint

Hidden Snap To Grid

Microsoft | From Flarn2006 | Dec 04, 2006

1. Go to Start->Run and type regedit.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Applets\Paint\View.
3. Change the SnapToGrid property to 1.
4. Change the GridExtent property to anything greater than 1.
5. Launch Microsoft Paint and play around (try the pencil tool first; it's cool) (Almost) everything you do will snap to an invisible grid! (This is completely different from that zoom grid that separates the pixels.)

CAUTION: Modifying the registry can be dangerous. Don't do it unless you know what you are doing. Also, I don't know why Microsoft wouldn't add a menu within Paint to activate that functionality, as it is clearly capable of doing it!

Current rating: 3 out of 10

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DarkShadow   (Mar 20, 2008)
Works flawlessly in Xp Pro , nice modification in paint
T   (Mar 17, 2008)
I couldn't get that to work on XP Pro.
The function is there in the registry, but changing it does not affect mspaint.
I tried the following figures: 1, 2, 5, 10, 1000 with no luck.
I didn't try to reboot tho, that may be required?
Simon   (May 26, 2007)
It's easy to undo.
nick   (May 2, 2007)
have you tried resetting the values to null or 0
Anonymous   (Apr 2, 2007)
How can you undo it? :O
I can't paint any longer :'(