Paint.net Download Windows 11

[Chiquita Palafox]

Thisis no different than trying to install, for instance, the latest NVIDIA drivers. They also don't install on older versions of Windows 10. Same for Intel Ethernet drivers, etc. You will run into this A LOT if you don't update Windows 10.

Upon running winver, it only informs me that I have "Version 10.0". I've just run Windows Update about thirty minutes ago, and it says it "had a problem installing" a few of them. I clicked retry, but it's still "checking for updates"...

I am having sort of the same problem... I tried several time to install paint.net... it got to the installing the .net framework portion... downloaded the files...then exited back to a blank paint.net install page and sat there. After a couple of attempts, I went to the Microsoft site and downloaded the .net framework myself and when I attempted to install it, I got the same ".net framework 4.7.1 is not supported on this operating system" message. I realize you guys are not tech support for Microsoft, but can you give me a clue what's wrong? I've ran Windows Update and all updates are installed... I'm running Windows 10... anything else I need to look for? Thanks!!!

Hello, I am on Win 10 1803 and I've been letting updates go through and rebooted many many many times, so I believe I am up to date. I cannot install 4.7.2 of .NET because it says I already have it or a newer version installed.

I have Defender and Malwarebytes, but those are off. I get to the part of the install where it says "Preparing to install" and just gets stuck there for 10+ minutes (this is to an SSD, even). I even tried a slightly older version, but that didn't work. Any other ideas?

I tried booting into Safe Mode as suggested and running the paint.net installer, however that does not work at all. After running the installer, the first thing is an error message from the .NET installer window saying 1) that .NET installer is not supported in safe mode 2) already running a newer .NET version, and a 3rd error which I don't remember.

From what I'm understanding, is that it appears your (4.0.21) Paint.net installer is forcing the 4.7.1 .NET Framework installer to run first, on a Windows 10 OS which already has a *NEWER* version installed, and the 4.7.1 .NET Framework is probably failing to complete with this error:

But the way that I got the screenshot above, is that I went into "C:\ac71d656454cd1fa798a7ed3e2" directory (which is where the paint.net installer is being unzipped to) and manually tried to run Setup.exe, which launches the Microsoft .NET Framework installer. And the SetupUtility.exe for .NET 4.5 does not run at all.

Basically, I think your installer is broken on the newer Windows 10 releases, because its trying to force the installation of older .NET versions (which fails miserably) since the built-in .NET cannot be modified by an external installer, and so we're never even getting to the installation of paint.net.

Paint.NET's installation is, as you point out, a little buggy on older versions of Windows 10. This is something I'll be improving, but I'd also like to point out that you will experience similar problems with things like NVIDIA GeForce and Intel Network Card drivers. I've smacked head-first into both of those while setting up a new Windows 10 system.

Is it possible to, or is it an intended future addition to be able to have open images in multiple undockable windows? I frequently want to cut and paste from one image to another / edit images side by side and I don't see a way to do this currently.

When you open multiple images, you can switch between them by clicking the thumbnail in the Image list at the top of the screen. This should resolve the cut/paste problem you mentioned. As for editing images side-by-side, no you can't unless you want to increase the canvas size enough to accommodate both images. Here's a tutorial on this technique:

To explain a bit, I use Paint.NET a lot because it is very efficient at doing certain tasks - such as selecting particular parts of images and superimposing / manipulating these parts as layers. The software seems very well designed with a focus on making otherwise complex procedures simple, and thus maximising time efficiency.

I frequently have many images open at the same time and it keeps occurring to me that being able to have multiple panes on the screen at the same time, or even just being able to switch between open images rapidly with keyboard shortcuts would further speed up the kind of tasks that Paint.NET lends itself to.

Hi, I love Paint.NET. I use it all the time, and have donated. Could you please consider making it possible to be able to see two images at the same time? I would really like to see both at the same time, for instance today I am trying to reverse-engineer a fuzzbox I made 20 years ago, by looking at the front and the back of the circuit card at the same time, and tag the parts I have scribed into the schematic with a transparent yellow mark on each image. It makes me lose my orientation to have to click between the single images. Please look into having multiple windows. Thanks!

What you say last is not correct. You can COMPILE a 3.5 source code (CLR 2.0) to the CLR 4.0 and most probably that works, unless it heavily relies on multi-threading and asynchronous operations.

But you cannot run a compiled IL on 4.0.

Windows Store apps cannot access the AppData folder. They are restricted to a sandbox where they store their data and settings. The only part of the file system they can see outside their own sandbox is the designated user documents folders (.e.g. Pictures, Documents, Videos, etc.)

Great work and while I hasited to buy at first, I though about the usage of paint.net all along my professional career. Bought it! I want to support paint.net and in gerneral so a positive example of a successful store app. I hope you share the progress and success of the store version. Here in germany you already have a 100% 5 star rating with 9 (including mine) super positive reviews!

This applies to all sorts of installation: offline exe/msi installer, online installer and auto updating from version 4.3.12 (by selecting the "Update when I exit" option). Also, this happens in several separate computers running Windows 11.

Hi,

I have the same exact problem, and the Microsoft Remover Tool doesn't find paint.net in the removable list.

I Deleted every single file of Paint.net after I uninstalled with Everything to see if it would work but it doesn't.

What made me uninstall paint.net? It's kinda strange.

So everything was fine before I Updated Boltbait's Plugin to the latest version supported for Paint.net 5.0 and Over(I had paint.net version 5 with Boltbait's plugin Pack for version 4), After I updated the Plugin with the use of the .exe installer from Boltbait, I tried opening Paint.net and it started going downhill from there... It just wouldn't start.

I went to uninstall paint.net, deleted the rest of the files in temp and %temp% folder, and used Everything to delete the remaining folders Paint.net left, folders were: paintdotnet. I restarted my computer and tried installing paint.net through every installer and it just wouldn't work, on the msi installer the installer blocked itself and crashed(left with the tab open) and the other installers would be really really slow and then not function anymore. What I found interesting is that if I opened process hacker as admin and searched paint on the search box, it would find me 4-6 instances of paint.net all in an orange box meaning that they were blocked/shutting down?

Another really strange occuring is that if I tried to reinstall paint.net version 4 and over(before version 5) it would still give me the same problems!

Seriously I do not know if I broke something in my Computer or that there is something stopping paint.net from installing itself, Please, I need Help.

Thanks

OS: Windows 11 Pro 22H2 Build 22621.1194

I did it already, by the way i found the problem, It was the Latest Windows 11 Release that glitched Paint.net, I went back to the version I had before and it worked, paint.net now opens and functions properly.

PS: I disabled GPU Acceleration cause it Lags at Startup and Editing, now it feels really really fast with it turned off and set to CPU Power.

PaintNet 5.0 was a puzzle I download the exe, installation window shows it has completed, yet no icon shortcut on desktop, I restart PC same I look in C Programmes, here in I find a PaintNet folder within is an EXE double click it installs again from start (as if never installed, but finally works... However, updating to 5.01 removed? Uninstalled? PainNet

Every time I use paint.net I have to deal with it freezing every 30 seconds to 2 minutes while I use it. I have tried exiting out all my other windows and restarting my laptop. I am stuck and I don't know what to do! Please send help...

Paint.NET (sometimes stylized as paint.net) is a freeware general-purpose raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed with the .NET platform. Paint.NET was originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project,[3] and has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program into a program for editing mainly graphics, with support for plugins.

Paint.NET originated as a computer science senior design project during spring 2004 at Washington State University. Version 1.0 consisted of 36,000 lines of code and was written in fifteen weeks.[4] In contrast, version 3.35 has approximately 162,000 lines of code. The Paint.NET project continued over the summer and into the autumn 2004 semester for both the version 1.1 and 2.0 releases.

Development continues with one programmer who worked on previous versions of Paint.NET while he was a student at WSU. As of May 2006 the program had been downloaded at least 2 million times,[5] at a rate of about 180,000 per month.[6]

Initially, Paint.NET was released under a modified version of the MIT License, with the exclusion of the installer, text, and graphics.[7] However, citing issues with the open source code being plagiarized by others that had rebranded the software as their own and bundled user content without their permission, the availability of the source code was restricted, in December 2007 Brewster announced his intent to restrict access to components of the program (including its installer, resources, and user interface).[8] In November 2009, the software was made proprietary, restricting the sale or creation of derivative works of the software.[8][9]

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