Karma Calculations – they never fail

Folks who have had enough with the default Graphics tool Paint that is shipped with Windows- here is some respite for you! There is a PowerToy called Paint .NET

Replace Paint with Paint .NET

You can get Paint .NET here

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Some common FAQs

Is Paint.NET free?
Yes, Paint.NET is indeed free in the sense that we do not charge money for it.

Will Paint.NET ever replace Paint in Windows?
There are no plans to include Paint.NET with Windows. But you can always download it for free from our website. Honestly, it’s better that Paint.NET is not integrated in to Windows, because that let’s keep our own design and agenda for everything.

Personally, I use Paint only for cropping screen shots and it works quite well for me. But for folks who think Paint hasn’t evolved at all since Win 95 days – then Paint .NET is for you.

Actually, not many people know that Paint.exe is PBrush.exe(remember Windows 95/98??) :)

UPDATE:

Bored with the plain old notepad? try the all new notepad2. You can download Notepad2 from here

The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, it’s a small, fast and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages

Also, try the all new Microsoft Calculator Plus - by Microsoft

Calculator Plus offers conversions between different measurement units for area, temperature, volume and more. It also includes all the mathematical functions offered in Microsoft Calculator

You can download the Power Calc.exe here