Re:Assembly Hall of Shame
by adamrezich on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:50PM
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The new mspaint fucked, then unfucked, then refucked my decades-old muscle memory of Win+R mspaint Enter Ctrl+E 1 Tab 1 Enter Ctrl+V to open Paint, resize canvas to minimum, then paste from clipboard. When you press Ctrl+E now, the Units control is selected by default, for some completely asinine reason!!!
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Re:Assembly Hall of Shame
by EvanAnderson on Friday August 07, 2026 @08:04PM
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You aren't alone in being frustrated by decades of muscle memory being disrespected by MSFT.
Re:Assembly Hall of Shame
by fluoridation on Friday August 07, 2026 @06:22PM
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That's pretty cool. I've never needed to do that because Paint remembers the last canvas size set manually.
Re:Assembly Hall of Shame
by adamrezich on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:01AM
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Yeah but sometimes I save images using Paint and then the default canvas size will be something else!
If I were designing an OS shell I would simply give the user the ability to easily make temporary text or image buffers and copy and paste content to/from them, rather than using a Notepad or a Paint.