Re: Form drom dos program will not "Full Screen" in XP as in 98 or

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:26:13 -0800

AMD wrote:

> This is of course an obvious answer, however it is not an option to
> put another computer on the desk, or is it an option to 'just buy
> another' program at this time for the customer. The expense for
> transfering the data would be cost-prohibitive.
> Virtual machine would be to intensive for this machine. Do you mean to
> tell me that Microsoft has ignored this problem altogether??? It is a
> simple video resoloution issue...
> I know Microsoft wants to exterminate DOS; but there must be another
> soloution.
> Thanks AMD

Why would Microsoft spend any time with a problem in running a DOS
program? DOS is not a supported operating system and was end-of-lifed
on December 31, 2001.

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeprodd

You asked for suggestions and I gave you some. If none of them work for
you, then install an older Windows operating system - or DOS - on the
customer's computer. That certainly wouldn't be "cost-prohibitive". If
the customer doesn't want to lose XP, then use a third-party
partitioner such as Partition Magic or BootIT NG (very reasonable and
in fact you could do this one thing with their trial version for no
money at all) and make a small partition for the older os. If you don't
want to uninstall XP first it is a bit trickier to do - older MS os's
must be on the first primary partition - but it's doable and in not
very much time.

Malke 

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