Palette and size patch for MS-PAINT

Posted by OgreVorbis on November 24, 2020
Posted in: Programming. 114 comments

Today I was playing around an practicing some skills with x64dbg. x64dbg is a debugger for 64-bit Windows similar to OllyDbg. I used to use OllyDbg a lot back in the day and I even have a lot of old youtube videos I posted on me hacking and patching stuff. It’s really fun to be able to change an EXE without access to the source code.

Anyway, the only main difference between x64dbg and OllyDbg is that one is 64-bit, but otherwise they are pretty similar, although not completely and I am having some problems, but I was able to improve MS-PAINT a fair amount.

This is for Windows 7 paint, but probably works on 10. Ordinary people start reading here. I changed these three things:

  • Paint has a problem where if you paste a really large image, it will save that image size and whenever you open paint, you have to resize the image smaller again, just so you can paste or work with a new image. This patch makes it keep a small image size. Just run the original paint and make sure you set the image size small. Now whenever you run this it will stay that size no matter what.
  • The “do you want to save box” when you quit is removed, so remember to save your file before quitting. I personally don’t like nag message, so I removed it.
  • The palette in the new Paint (newer than XP), uses a bunch of obscure colors that somebody must have decided while they were smoking. I mean, it might be cool for some art work, but all of it is generally going to look the same then. I replaced the palette with the original Paint’s common 16 VGA colors. The classic EGA/VGA color scheme. It’s good if you do work with retro stuff cause it has those colors by default. You can also change the color palette yourself with a hex editor (this part didn’t require any hacking), you just need to search for the RGB hex color codes. Choose an obscure one to start cause it might find other matches. This works right out of the download though, I’m just saying for people who want to change to their own palette.

I may eventually make a patcher program instead so people can make their own palettes for Paint. I’m not sure why Microsoft decided to hard code these oddball color codes in there. Well, it’s Microsoft 😉

Download Patched MSPAINT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IYfBWzPsPhdlXHgXpKj6VBijccowZnHx/view?usp=sharing

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