- Name: Pinta
- Homepage(s): Homepage - GitHub
- Description: Drawing and image editing program. Inspired by Paint.NET, but has diverged from that program quite a bit.
- License: MIT license: https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/blob/master/license-mit.txt
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Pinta: Open-source drawing and imaging editing program
April 13, 2025 - 2:34pm
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Pinta: Open-source drawing and imaging editing program
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I can't get it running within either a Windows 10 or Windows 11 virtual machine. It shows up in Task Manager and just closes. No logs anywhere in APPDATA or LOCALAPPDATA.
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Microsoft Defender may be involved in blocking the Pinta program.
You could try the Defender Control 2.1 program from Sordum.org
Links:
• Sordum.org program page: https://www.sordum.org/9480/defender-control-v2-1/
• direct download Defender Control 2.1: https://www.sordum.org/downloads/?st-defender-control
and after having inserted Pinta among the exclusions (of Microsoft Defender), try to launch it again.
There's no alert in Microsoft Defender either
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Run As Administrator.
This was an old bug on version 2.1.2 - I don't know if it was fixed in version 3.0.
--> rif Issue #948: https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/issues/948
The app does not start even with Defender disabled and running it as admin on Windows 10. Launching it with --debug produces no errors or log files. Same on a clean Windows 7 x64 virtual machine. Does the app perhaps require modern OpenGL and have no checking or errors for that not being the case?
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It seems that an essential component is missing so the program does not even start.
It has already happened to me with other programs.
The missing component was UCRT (Universal C RunTime) and it is a .dll that has the name 'ucrtbase.dll'
You can easily find it in a Firefox Portable installation.
In Firefox Legacy the dll (for Windows 7 x64) has version number 10.0.19041.685.
Just copy the dll into the same folder as Pinta.
If it does not work, I have no other suggestions. Sorry.
Shouldn't the Pinta installer have checked for and installed that? I can't even run it installed.
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UCRT is not inside Pinta installer, because it's a Windows component.
This component is surely missing in Windows 7/8.1. May be missing in Windows 10.
In my opinion You can try to copy 'ucrtbase.dll' inside Pinta installation folder (near main program, the exe file).
If not works, simply delete this dll.
b.t.w,
There is a Microsoft link for download this component https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=48234
but with solution You must install the component in Your Windows. This is not a solution for portable apps.