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04 Dec 2006 | Sent in by Flarn2006
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!
Brian - Jun 22 2010 12:14PM i did this but only 2 and 3 on grid extent works
BobbyEarle - Sep 1 2008 2:44AM 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.
DarkShadow - Mar 20 2008 2:37PM Works flawlessly in Xp Pro , nice modification in paint
T - Mar 17 2008 10:24AM 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 9:56AM It's easy to undo.
nick - May 2 2007 3:06PM have you tried resetting the values to null or 0
Anonymous - Apr 2 2007 1:01PM How can you undo it? :O
I can't paint any longer :'(