Dec 15, 2018  The unveiling of Microsoft PhotoDraw version 2.0 in less than a year’s time after the initial release of Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 has really left everybody spellbound. With the release of Microsoft’s PhotoDraw 2000, the dream of every graphic artist was fulfilled. My PhotoDraw has been operating fine but today when I tried to open the programme I keep getting asked 'Would you like to register your copy of Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 v' with Microsoft?' Whether I click yes or no the result is the same the front page and therefore the whole program closes. I have tried reinstalling without any change.

I have Photodraw 2000 on my computer from several years ago - I copied it onto my newer computer and I use it all the time to add text, borders or effects and to correct old photos or erase backgrounds. I use my photos for various purposes, for teaching and family use, so it's good to be able to do lots of things with the photos in just one simple program I love Photodraw- it has so many uses and is easy to use. I never got the hang of using layers as in paint.net (which I've tried ) and Photoshop (which seems so expensive and complex). Does anyone else still use Photodraw or am I hanging on to a dinosaur here? Re-sizing images - here's a quick way to re-size your photos so they will open in PhotoDraw (it's an old program from when photos were smaller, and the maximum JPEG size it can manage is 2500pixels). If you have Office 2013, it will no longer include MS Office Picture Manager; you can download a free copy of and install just the MS Office Picture Manager component; it's a good quick program for basic photo editing, including very a useful 'midtone' adjustment as well as the usual contrast, cropping, rotate, red-eye etc.). Somebody I know is really fond of / dependent on PhotoDraw 2000 **version 1.0**.

We did manage to get a hold of V2 and use it in Windows 10 but it is missing some features and somehow less stable. He runs PhotoDraw on a dying Windows XP laptop now and installed apps are hard/impossible to migrate. So, does anybody have the install media for version 1 somewhere? I read on Wikipedia it also shipped with Microsoft Office 2000 Premium/Developer on disks 3+4 but I couldn't find those disks online anywhere.

PhotoDraw works on Windows 10:) Even fixed the 3D problem! I've just installed PhotoDraw2 on my latest computer with Windows 10. There were a few issues and it said it was not compatible, but I persisted and it's working. I had to restart my computer before it would save the files as.jpg or.gif, and it still keeps asking me to insert Disc 2 despite my clicking the ‘ignore’ and ‘don't show me this again’ buttons - a minor problem. I manually copied all the extra files from the disc folders (CD2) into the photodraw folders on my computer, so that I would have the full range of textures, edges etc. The only thing that was missing was the 3D fonts, but I even found a solution to that online, and now they work beautifully! (- download install d3drm.dll at and place it in the folder C: Program Files (x86) Microsoft Office Office).

The disk problem could be related to Windows not realising the program is installed correctly - or the program missing this info in some config file. I had similar issues with multivolume installs of old stuff a lot of times.

Like you I just prefer some of the oldies;) One trick that almost always works is to copy all install volumes onto a USB stick. Often there are empty text files as an ID or it is the volume name the installer asks for - but only if the next install file can't be found!

If all volumes are present it will just continue to do the work and finnish without any error. Really old programs or programmers like to include a finnish command into the install routine for the program. A simple way of checking if all really is complete from the days where the OS did not care about such things. If the above did not help try to copy the program folder from and installation on an old OS into your new program folder.