Re: Application requires small fonts - not available

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From: a nonymous (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:46:07 +1000

| > "Charlie" wrote
| > | A customer has bought a gaming application that requires small fonts to be
| > | enabled, and says to do this via the Control Panel. I know about the display
| > | settings fonts option, but in his current theme no small fonts are available.
| > | Are there any easy way to get round this? I've seen a number of registry
| > | editing suggestions, but not followed this route yet.

| "a nonymous" wrote:
| > What is the exact wording of
| > "small fonts to be enabled ... via the Control Panel" ?
|
| > Is this gaming application designed for XP?

"Charlie" wrote:
| The exact wording of the error message is that the application "requires your
| System Font Size to be set to Small Fonts. Please Change this setting using
| the Control Panel, and then re-run the game."
|
| No, the game has a minimum system requirement of Windows 95/98. Which I
| suspected might be an issue.

 Sounds as if the game was written for Windows 95, which might be an issue.
Try running the game in "Compatability Mode"...

Right-click the shortcut to the game.
 Properties
  Compatability tab

 Try various settings for Windows 95 or 98

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