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Drawing or painting can ease your tense, release your pressure, change your imagination into visible objects and so on. And it is easy to be realized, because what you need is a pen and a sheet of paper. If you do not carry with you these two things, you are still able to make it by use of your PC. More specifically speaking, you can open the built-in Paint and finish your drawing on it. Now, see how to open Paint in Windows 8 computer.
Press Windows+R to open Run dialog, input mspaint in the empty box and click OK.
Step 1: On the Start screen, right-click the bottom left corner to access the Quick Access Menu and choose Search on it.
Step 2: Type paint in the box, choose Apps and click Paint in the pop-up result.
Enter the Apps screen by pressing Windows+Q hotkeys, locate Paint and tap it.
Step 1: Access the Command Prompt.
Step 2: Type mspaint in the window, and tap Enter.
Step 1: Get into Windows PowerShell by means of a run command. That is, enter powershell and click OK in the Run dialog.
Step 2: Input mspaint in the Windows PowerShell window and press Enter.
What If there is no MS Paint installed on Windows 8/8.1 computer?
If MS Paint is pre-loaded on your Windows 8, You can directly open it with above methods. What if MS Paint is not installed on your computer by default? Don’t worry! You can download and install it with simple steps:
When the installation is completed, you can find MS Paint in the apps list in the Start screen. You can open and use it in your preferred way.
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