First post, by Andrew T.
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Earlier this month, I was able to successfully get my Windows 95 system up and running again after a hard drive crash. Today, however, I stumbled upon a small but annoying problem.
When running the Windows 3.1 Paintbrush accessory (not Windows 95 Paint) and using the View > Zoom In feature, the entire composition in the editing window becomes black. Meanwhile, the gridlines that should be black appear in the actual colours of the composition. When drawing pixels onto the screen from this zoomed-in view, the squares "fill in" with the selected colour...until you scroll, when they become black again.
I've been using Windows 95 for over 20 years and Paintbrush for over 25, and I've never run into this problem before. My first guess was that this was an incompatibility issue with the GDI system files an unofficial "service pack" had installed, but reverting these to known-good versions from my previous Win95 installation made no difference.
I've always vastly preferred Paintbrush to Paint, and part of the reason why I specifically maintain a Windows 95 system in the first place is because it's capable of running Paintbrush perfectly! Paintbrush is a finicky accessory, and newer NT-based OSes aren't capable of using its colour eraser tool.
Any ideas?