@SAM-R: site severely compromised/altered two days ago. Recovery may take a week. Be thankful of the talent and dedication of those who are working hard at it.
Really? Seriously? First do you really need to see 20 pages of mostly people asking and begging for esd links? Instead maybe this new thread will be actual discussion instead of begging for links, the way it used to be. I was about to point to an issue where the server crashed and took out the forums a few years ago but then I noticed join date...that happened before your joined. The mods were able to manage to restore almost the entire forums in a very short period. Things happen and really it was not the end of the world. Kudos to mods now and for all the hard selfless work they have done over the many years. And a big thanks as well to the non mods creating (re-creating) the useful threads.
As the threadtitle states, I have recreated it because there is a slim chance this thread could be recovered. All posted tlu esd downloadlinks would be unusable by now. Only fiekert123 had posted a post with backuplinks for dutch esd's, the rest was temp.
I am glad I saved the post & steps to get original mspaint back The link to the post is no good though.
Just uninstall the new ms paint, et voila the old ms paint is back, but hb860 will restore his own thread if it can't be recovered.
That's how I got my mspaint back too. That would be good for others that don't remember how or don't see your post.