
If there are three apps I would like to see remain untouched in Windows, they are WordPad, Paint, and Notepad. The new Paint 3D app has a lot of potentials, but right now, it’s messing with my workflow basic tasks like resizing photos, cropping, saving, and opening are just a little too awkward or hard to find.

Every attempt at launching it opened the new 3D Paint app instead. Initially, I tried finding the classic Paint app using Search, the Run command and even browsing the System 32 folder.

Bring Back the Old Paint App in Windows 10 So, although I’ll still play with the new Paint 3D, let me show you how to get back the classic Paint app. The interface is strikingly different, and there are some minor differences like performance opening a file and even launching the app which is not instantaneous.įor me personally, and possibly some of you, I prefer to have our cake and eat it too.

Using Paint 3D is like migrating to a foreign country, learning the laws of the land and how to communicate.
