MS Paint is here to stay in Windows 10

swarfega · 25 Jul 2017

Its made the news everywhere, including our main news provider.

SLeee · 25 Jul 2017

MS Paint is here to stay, it will just have a new home soon, in the Windows Store where it will be available for free.

whatever...

Scottyboy99 · 25 Jul 2017

So if we have it already then it will vanish presumably when some kind of update hits our systems? And then to get it back we have to install it via store? Pretty annoying if that's the case, if it works just fine as it is then they should leave it alone

Almighty1 · 18 Oct 2017

Has anyone actually found Paint in the Windows store because Fall Creators Update is out, paint is gone and I couldn't find it in the Windows store either.

Tony K · 18 Oct 2017

Almighty1 said:

Has anyone actually found Paint in the Windows store because Fall Creators Update is out, paint is gone and I couldn't find it in the Windows store either.

It's in the Accessories folder in All Apps view.

Almighty1 · 18 Oct 2017

HippsieGypsie said:

It's in the Accessories folder in All Apps view.

Thanks, so Microsoft changed their mind and kept it in the OS instead?

Tony K · 18 Oct 2017

Almighty1 said:

Thanks, so Microsoft changed their mind and kept it in the OS instead?

You're welcome. It looks that way. W7 Backup & Restore remains in the CP as well.

Almighty1 · 18 Oct 2017

3D Builder is in the store but I guess since one already had it, it remains installed. The screen saver function is still there in Lock Screen.

Bree · 18 Oct 2017

HippsieGypsie said:

...It looks that way. W7 Backup & Restore remains in the CP as well.

Both were said to be deprecated, which roughly means 'not removed, but they may be one day'.
Features removed or Deprecated in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

I've already used Backup & Restore's 'make a system image' to add 1709 to my test machine's collection of system images (and restored several of them since the upgrade). It has images for all versions from 10240 up to (now) 1709, it's useful when answering questions here to be able to run the same version as the OP - it's never running the same version from one day to the next :)