Microsoft Paint

Hidden Snap To Grid

By Flarn2006 | 2006-12-04 | Microsoft

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!


Comments (6) Add Your Comment

Prepare for a flood of comments from noobs who have totally ignored the warning about messing with the registry, and now have to re-install windows.

BobbyEarle  (Sep 1, 2008)

Works flawlessly in Xp Pro , nice modification in paint

DarkShadow  (Mar 20, 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?

T  (Mar 17, 2008)

It's easy to undo.

Simon  (May 26, 2007)

have you tried resetting the values to null or 0

nick  (May 2, 2007)

How can you undo it? :O
I can't paint any longer :'(

Anonymous  (Apr 2, 2007)

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