Nov 16, 2006 New Features in Windows 3.1 Email. You can, for example, create an illustration using the Paint program and embed the graphic in a Write document. Paint (formerly Paintbrush), commonly known as Microsoft Paint, is a simple raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows.

Microsoft Windows 3.1 was an evolution to Windows 3.0 and undoubtably the most popular, poster child version in the Windows 3.x series. Among include a drop of real mode support (see more below), the removal of the Reversi game, updated icons with richer colors, an improved setup process with better hardware detection, and the introduction of batch install. The File Manager was completely revamped and a revamped hypertext help system was introduced.

Applications could talk to each other not only through the DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) protocol, also used by OS/2, but also by the new Windows-only OLE protocol which allows for applications to share any type of object more seamlessly. Write, Paintbrush and the new Object Packager have support for this technology which remains with us today in Windows 8. Windows 3.1 also came with support for TrueType fonts which provide more realistic font rendering as they are outline fonts that can scale to any point size. With TrueType users could finally have a good grasp that what was shown on the screen would be what was printed without blocky outlines. TrueType survives today along with its close cousin OpenType. Multimedia support was now fully integrated along with the expandable Control Panel into Windows 3.1.

In Windows 3.0 this was provided by a Multimedia PC add-on which usually came with new Multimedia PCs, sound cards and CD-ROM drives of the day. Common supported cards include Adlib and Sound Blaster 16. BETA During development Windows 3.1 was under the development codename *Janus * and 3 prerelease versions have surfaced, two beta candidates and a release candidate.

The final beta was compiled on December 17, 1991 and expects a BIOS date of the 18th or later. Purple was replaced with blue and the boot screen was overhauled to the modern 3.1 variant. Windows 3.2 was a Chinese language specific release.

The only difference from 3.1 was additional support for Chinese characters and was released in late 1993. On 386 systems and greater you can run a limited subset of 32-bit Windows applications (mostly those for Windows NT 3.5 and 95) with the. Greeeen A Domo Ohisashiburi Desu.

Installation instructions To Install: Windows 3.1 requires an installation of either or and we recommend using if you are unsure of a version. Real Mode is no longer supported in Windows 3.1 requiring at least an Intel 80286 or equivalent to run. No 8086 or 8088 systems will run Windows 3.1.

When did pbrush.exe become mspaint.exe? What was it in Win98? (no doubt Win 3.1 it was pbrush.exe.) I doubt I'm imagining things, it was pbrush.exe at one time. I'd like to know when the transition happened.

Also, when did the whole application get renamed from paintbrush to mspaint? Did the executable change with it at the same time? ADDED Jul 5 '11: MaxMackie this which is an interesting page and answers it.

From some newsgroup posts that I came across while researching this issue, apparently on Windows 9x series machines (e.g. Windows 98), a pbrush.exe file actually was included in the system32 directory that was just a stub which executed mspaint.exe. (In even older Windows versions, pbrush.exe was the 16-bit version of the Paint program; the 32-bit version, mspaint.exe, was apparently introduced with Windows 95.) For the 32-bit Windows NT series, an engineer at Microsoft must have decided to switch the pbrush command from working via the actual pbrush.exe stub file to taking advantage of the HKLM Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion App Paths registry key. @naxa So, while it may be worth saving closed questions you find useful.(though that can be an issue as there's graphics, you may get a long filename/folder name if not careful with saving.

And it may be multi page like those great ones that were closed and deleted).It may be worth having files on programs and perhaps, files on tasks. There are many forums where I find useful info, and I will and have outlived lots of them but my own collection of notes lives with me, can be on an online backup, and has been more reliable than any forum. – Nov 19 '13 at 10:21.