Error exporting to MS Paint after switching to Paint Classic in Win11 — How do I change the path to the "Paint" app?
Description
I’ve been using Greenshot for years under Win10. I recently got a new machine with Win11, and the Win11 version of “Paint” is godawful, so I replaced it with Paint Classic, and followed the instructions during installation of Paint Classic to disable the “app execution aliases” for the mspaint.exe & pbrush.exe apps. See attached screen-grabs. After doing this, all works perfectly using Paint Classic instead of the Win11 Paint app EXCEPT for Greenshot’s capture to MS Paint. When I attempt to capture to MS Paint, I get an error stating “An error occurred while exporting to MS Paint: The system cannot find the file specified”, per attached screen-grab. I’d really like to be able to continue to capture to Paint, but to use Paint Classic specifically instead.
So… How do I re-direct Greenshot to open in Paint Classic (C:\Program Files\Classic Paint\mspaint1.exe) instead of the default Win11 MS Paint app? I dug into the Greenshot “Preferences”, but found nothing promising. Hope someone can help!!
I’ve been using Greenshot for years under Win10. I recently got a new machine with Win11, and the Win11 version of “Paint” is godawful, so I replaced it with Paint Classic, and followed the instructions during installation of Paint Classic to disable the “app execution aliases” for the mspaint.exe & pbrush.exe apps. See attached screen-grabs. After doing this, all works perfectly using Paint Classic instead of the Win11 Paint app EXCEPT for Greenshot’s capture to MS Paint. When I attempt to capture to MS Paint, I get an error stating “An error occurred while exporting to MS Paint: The system cannot find the file specified”, per attached screen-grab. I’d really like to be able to continue to capture to Paint, but to use Paint Classic specifically instead.
So… How do I re-direct Greenshot to open in Paint Classic (C:\Program Files\Classic Paint\mspaint1.exe) instead of the default Win11 MS Paint app? I dug into the Greenshot “Preferences”, but found nothing promising. Hope someone can help!!