Brian

Is there a way to set the default color & line thickness in Paint so I do not
have to set it every time I open Paint?

In my line of work, I use Paint almost exclusively for taking screen shots
to the clipboard, pasting them into Paint, encircling things in red, the
copying/pasting portions of the results into e-mails as examples.

Every time I open Paint, I have do this:

Colors -> Edit colors - {Choose red}
Line tool -> pick thickness (default is too thin for my use)

Is there an INI file or registry entry somehwere that contains/controls
these defaults so that I can manually set the default line color & thickness?

Brian

I misspoke a little. I can use the pallette to set the color (don't have to
use menu bar); however, the problem remains that it does not persist when
opening Paint the next time, and I still need (well, let's just say I want
it) a way to set the default line thickness.

"Brian" wrote:

> Is there a way to set the default color & line thickness in Paint so I do not
> have to set it every time I open Paint?
>
> In my line of work, I use Paint almost exclusively for taking screen shots
> to the clipboard, pasting them into Paint, encircling things in red, the
> copying/pasting portions of the results into e-mails as examples.
>
> Every time I open Paint, I have do this:
>
> Colors -> Edit colors - {Choose red}
> Line tool -> pick thickness (default is too thin for my use)
>
> Is there an INI file or registry entry somehwere that contains/controls
> these defaults so that I can manually set the default line color & thickness?

philo

"Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0050B967-B2DF-47EF-A949-1A395F0A2054@microsoft.com...
> I misspoke a little. I can use the pallette to set the color (don't have
to
> use menu bar); however, the problem remains that it does not persist when
> opening Paint the next time, and I still need (well, let's just say I want
> it) a way to set the default line thickness.
>
> "Brian" wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to set the default color & line thickness in Paint so I
do not
> > have to set it every time I open Paint?
> >
> > In my line of work, I use Paint almost exclusively for taking screen
shots
> > to the clipboard, pasting them into Paint, encircling things in red, the
> > copying/pasting portions of the results into e-mails as examples.
> >
> > Every time I open Paint, I have do this:
> >
> > Colors -> Edit colors - {Choose red}
> > Line tool -> pick thickness (default is too thin for my use)
> >
> > Is there an INI file or registry entry somehwere that contains/controls
> > these defaults so that I can manually set the default line color &
thickness?


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