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So, go ahead. "Download" it (or just enable it). Draw a crooked house. Make a green sun. And remember that sometimes, the oldest tools are the best tools.
Windows 10’s Snipping Tool is great, but editing is clunky. The classic workflow is: Win + Shift + S (screenshot) -> Ctrl + V into Paint. You can draw red arrows, black boxes, or crop pixel-perfectly. Paint loads in 0.2 seconds. Photoshop takes 20 seconds.
If you open your Start Menu and type “Paint,” it might not show up. This leads the average user to assume it has been vaporized. Hence, the frantic search for a third-party download. Let’s address the elephant in the room. If you search Bing or Google for “MS Paint download,” the first result is often the Microsoft Store .