# Paint Shop Pro 7

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paint-shop-pro-7/46157>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 18, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paint-shop-pro-7/46157 "2000-12-18T16:16:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paint-shop-pro-7/46157/1 "2000-12-18T16:16:04Z")

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    - I asked how to eliminate this program’s entries from the registry a couple days ago because I needed to open a particular graphic file and couldn’t otherwise. I wanted to re-install the trial version, but never did figure out how. I found PSP7 on sale somewhere and bought it anyway.  
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- The first couple days I had it, everything worked fine.
- Now, this morning, today, when I try to draw a freehand line, it connects the ends of the freehand line with another straight line, and fills the enclosed areas in with another background color. I don’t want it to, I didn’t ask it to, the first couple days it didn’t. The book says nothing about this that I can quickly find; the help files don’t say how to prevent it from doing this; they only say how to choose the color it uses. I even uninstalled and reinstalled, and the program came back with all the settings it had when it left. WTF? - MC

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**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paint-shop-pro-7/46157/2 "2000-12-18T16:42:50Z")

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    - Perhaps I should clarify: when I draw a freehand line, it performs a fill on the line ends, and I don’t want it to at all. I can’t find anything anywhere that says how to unset this “feature”.  
—And speaking of _those_ things, this program sure likes it’s illegal operations, at least on my machine. Is it like this for everybody? It bombs out a _lot_. I note there’s no patches for ver 7. - MC

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paint-shop-pro-7/46157/3 "2000-12-18T17:00:52Z")

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Why not try a right click when you’re doing a line? Usually a menu comes up with settings you can change. Im sure the program has preferences where you can change settings.