Loading DOS program - screen size trouble

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Doug

Trying to load DOS program Manage Your Money V8. Have
install diskettes. When install on RUN, program screen
fills about 1/5th of display. Can't figure out how to
expand program screen to fill display. Any old timers
out there who can help? Thanks
 
Doug said:
Trying to load DOS program Manage Your Money V8. Have
install diskettes. When install on RUN, program screen
fills about 1/5th of display. Can't figure out how to
expand program screen to fill display. Any old timers
out there who can help? Thanks
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Hello Doug,

LOL .... there's a fair share of "old timers" here. <vbg>

Bring up Help and Support (from the XP menus). Search on "create custom startup files for an MS-DOS-based program".

Try these methods.
(1) While in command prompt session, press ALT+Enter keys.
That always gets a Full Screen. To toggle back, repeat keypresses ALT+Enter.

(2) In your program's shortcut properties, you can drill down and specify Full Screen. (shortcut/properties/ Screen tab/Full screen).
In case none of these provide success---

(3) when you have the command prompt 'up'--right-click on the title bar of the Command window (or
press ALT+SPACEBAR+P) , and select Properties. (That's properties for the Command prompt environment.)
Then take notes and do some tests. In Options tab, you can select Full screen.
In the layout tab, you can modify the window size.

HTH
 
message | Your most likely having a problem because DOS is not
| supported in XP.
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Trying to load DOS program Manage Your Money V8.
Have
| >install diskettes. When install on RUN, program
screen
| >fills about 1/5th of display. Can't figure out how
to
| >expand program screen to fill display. Any old
timers
| >out there who can help? Thanks
| >.
| >
Boy, I get sick of seeing ignorant quotes like that!
If you don't know what you're talking about, keep
looking for the sunshine - you haven't found it yet.
Many DOS programs DO in fact work in XP, and they work
well! And, they're often screamers at that! Speed
personified.
 
Doug said:
Trying to load DOS program Manage Your Money V8. Have
install diskettes. When install on RUN, program screen
fills about 1/5th of display. Can't figure out how to
expand program screen to fill display. Any old timers
out there who can help? Thanks
Click to expand...

Need to configure the properties of Command Prompt. Right click
on Command Prompt and open the Properties box. Under Layout, set
the screen buffer size and window size to width of 80 and height
of 25. If Options is set for full screen, then a 640 x 480 DOS
screen should fill the entire monitor. If display option is for
Window,then alt+Enter will generate the full screen. HTH.
 
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