When to use Paint over Photoshop?

Im newer to Photoshop so its easier for me to throw my images into Paint to resize and crop them.
I was curious if other community members ever use Microsoft Paint for tasks and if so what?
Also, should I be doing this or would it benefit me to use Photoshop for resizing and croping images?  I plan on using Photoshop but I rarely have it open since I mostly use the development programs within CS5 and it takes magnitudes longer to open Photoshop than Paint.  But even with Fireworks running and the image attended for Fireworks I still through my image into paint because it seems faster.  Am I dumb? Should I give up the paint? Some hot keys for this task probably would be better ahhhh... any insight?
Thanks,

I do not think that I have used MS Paint, since about Windows 2.0. I did not even realize that it was still around.
I just use PS for everything, with the exception of JPEG's, with bum header info, that PS will not open. Then, I just use either ThumbsPlus, or IrfanView, to Open, then Save with proper header info.
I do not have any data on the Scaling (Resizing) algorithms in Paint, but would think that those in PS would be better. They do offer you a good range of choices, but maybe Paint has similar? Same when Cropping. What part of those operations do you find easier in Paint?
Though I use PS a lot, and have for a very long time, image editing software is but a tool in a process. Using the right tool, or the one that the artist is most comfortable with, is the trick. I use Painter (now Corel) for a lot of treatments, but almost always finish up in PS. Over the decades, PS has become closer to Painter, than in days past. Still, there are treatments that I want to apply in Painter, and part of those choices will be my personnal comfort level. I might have something very similar in my newer PS, but if I know every step by heart in Painter, my comfort level rises.
Use what you like for different operations, but I would do a visual check with an operation, like Scale/Resize. Do the same exact operation in each program, using the same base Image, and the same exact settings. Compare the results of the two programs critically.
Good luck,
Hunt

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