problem with mspaint

[maaluna]

My mspaint program wont open image files when I click on image in folder and select "open with paint" I get a box with a red cross saying 'windows cannot find C:\(full path and file name etc) then another box with a yellow triangle saying( C:\Documents.bmp was not found)otherwise the paint program itself works fine when I open it and I can open files from the file menu inside paint and other functions inside paint work
my OS is xp3
P.S. this started when I upgraded from XP2 but I don't know If it is related to that or not just thought I'd mention it.

[overthehill]

Hi and welcome to CH.
Do you have paint set as your default program for BMP files? . Try this, In Internet Explorer go to -Tools- Folder Options -File Types- Select BMP- choose open with paint- click apply- then close.
Did this help?

[maaluna]

To overthehill thanks for your prompt reply
Yes I tried your suggestion (the bmp file assc. was there)(no It didn't fix it)among several other suggestions I found on various other sites eg. delete registry key for mspaint ,make sure file associations are correct etc I did a complete scan with microsft security essentials no virus or malware was found I did a complete defrag I freed up disk space I have 48% free space.Image files open with other graphics programs I have installed when I right click and select "open with"and yes I know I can use other programs for graphics but I really love the quick and easy paint and I use it quite frequently so I would like to find a solution to this.Thks

[overthehill]

You probably realized that I meant Windows Explorer not Internet Explorer as I stated earlier. Right now I can't think of anything else that you could try though. But if I do come up with something I will reply. Hopefully someone else will respond. overthehill

[maaluna]

yes I knew what you ment I'm still looking for solutions I'll let you know how I go and if I find the cause etc thks   

[BC_Programmer]

The association text has something like

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mspaint %1

when it should have

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mspaint "%1"


[maaluna]

Thks for that I typed in the quotation marks and I got a box saying 'The specified program could not be found' so I checked and the mspaint file with his own little icon is in the windows\system32 folder where it should be.Any suggestions?

[BC_Programmer]

something <like> meant replace %1 with "%1".

[maaluna]

yes I knew what you meant I just added the quotation marks where there weren't any I should have said.Even so it didn't work.I just wondered about the dll files that paint uses to operate so I did a search on the internet and found something about registering the dll files so I used regsvr32 and registered the paint files and there were two that wouldn't register or unregister these were:- msvcrt.dll and oleopro32.dll  the other two (mfc42.dll and mfc42u.dll)were successfull could this have something to do with why it doesn't work properly?
thnks

[maaluna]

Hello again Just letting all know that my mspaint works normally again all I did was scan with spybot antimalwarebytes and defragged about 50 times I don't know what the problem was but it's fixed now so I'm happy thanks all for your help. 

[overthehill]

Glad that you got things fixed, and thanks for lettings us know that you found a solution. Because you indicate using spybot and MWB do you think that possibly you should check out this site? Just a suggestion.
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html