mspaint is behaving oddly in a Win 98SE machine:

On start, it displays the message "Not enough memoryor resources

to complete operation. Please close some  programs and try

again".

 Then only the top bar and a blank page appear .

 If I select File->New, it repeats the message and exits

when I click OK.

 If I select File->Open, it also repeats the message

but opens the file nevertheless. The toolbar is displayed

and I can edit and save the modified file.

 I uninstalled, rebooted and reinstalled it without any 

effect.

 The machine has the same 288 MB of RAM and

300MHz Pentium 2 processor it had.

 Only Windows Explorer appears to be running.

 Any ideas ?

 

 

 

Is this the original mspaint that came with 98 or modified like from XP or something? Also, be sure that you're really not running out of memory for things. What do you have running in the background if anything?