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sevenseeker
January 10th 04, 12:00 PM
I have a DOS app I dearly love, and it ran well in Win
9x. There's never been a Windows version of the app
released, or I would have upgraded. In the meantime, I
upgraded to XP and it still runs under XP, but it's video
behavior is altered somehow, and the whole program is now
compressed into the top half of the screen, even though it
is running in full-screen mode. I have tried all of the
compatibility mode settings, and nothing has any effect.
I've also tried altering the video resolution, likewise
without effect. Is there any hope of getting it back to
its old self? I would be happy to hear any suggestions,
since I have tried everything I can think of. Thanks.

John Chin [MSFT]
January 10th 04, 12:00 PM
Try Ctrl-Enter to toogle to and from full screen

Thanks

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"sevenseeker" > wrote in message
...
> I have a DOS app I dearly love, and it ran well in Win
> 9x. There's never been a Windows version of the app
> released, or I would have upgraded. In the meantime, I
> upgraded to XP and it still runs under XP, but it's video
> behavior is altered somehow, and the whole program is now
> compressed into the top half of the screen, even though it
> is running in full-screen mode. I have tried all of the
> compatibility mode settings, and nothing has any effect.
> I've also tried altering the video resolution, likewise
> without effect. Is there any hope of getting it back to
> its old self? I would be happy to hear any suggestions,
> since I have tried everything I can think of. Thanks.

John Chin [MSFT]
January 10th 04, 12:01 PM
My mistake it should me Alt-Enter to toggle to and from full screen

Thanks

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"John Chin [MSFT]" > wrote in message
...
> Try Ctrl-Enter to toogle to and from full screen
>
> Thanks
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
>
> "sevenseeker" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I have a DOS app I dearly love, and it ran well in Win
> > 9x. There's never been a Windows version of the app
> > released, or I would have upgraded. In the meantime, I
> > upgraded to XP and it still runs under XP, but it's video
> > behavior is altered somehow, and the whole program is now
> > compressed into the top half of the screen, even though it
> > is running in full-screen mode. I have tried all of the
> > compatibility mode settings, and nothing has any effect.
> > I've also tried altering the video resolution, likewise
> > without effect. Is there any hope of getting it back to
> > its old self? I would be happy to hear any suggestions,
> > since I have tried everything I can think of. Thanks.
>
>

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