I deleted paint!

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I deleted paint on accident while trying to get rid of a virus. The virus
went away, but unfortunately so did the program, and now I can't get it back.
I went on here and found where I can download it again from, by going to
Control Panel and then the add/replace part, except it says I need my
'Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 CD', but I seemed to of 'misplaced'
it. Is there any way I can get the paint program without the cd?
*I already tried Start/Run: mspaint.... it didn't work.
Thanks!

 

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Go to Start -> Search.
Enter mspaint.exe. Click on Search.
You should find copies in a number of locations. Here are two on
my XP PC:

C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache

Right click on the file you find and select copy.
Open My Computer and navigate to C:\Windows\System32 folder.
Paste the file here.
Now see if you can start mspaint from the Run command.

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"KatieH" <KatieH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:081E1397-1CB7-4DF7-9125-F64CB0D11AC4@microsoft.com...
>I deleted paint on accident while trying to get rid of a virus.
>The virus
> went away, but unfortunately so did the program, and now I
> can't get it back.
> I went on here and found where I can download it again from, by
> going to
> Control Panel and then the add/replace part, except it says I
> need my
> 'Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 CD', but I seemed to of
> 'misplaced'
> it. Is there any way I can get the paint program without the
> cd?
> *I already tried Start/Run: mspaint.... it didn't work.
> Thanks!