Resizing DOS apps windows under

[magnat_pvl]

Specific application: end 80's Lotus Symphony 2 under Dos.

Using newly found "EMS Magic", I was able to run Sym2 on my laptop.
That was great.

But it opens in full window AND not only hides the windows of running
programs under Windows XP but it also seems to deactivate them (tried
extended desktop with no success).

ALT Return is of no use.

That makes me still need two computers, one for XP applications and one
for Sym2, and that is exactly what I wish to stop.

Any good tip would be appreciated.
Thanks. Pierre.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Just one of the many unfortunate "quirks" of Windows XP is that on expanding a DOS
window to "full-screen" you cannot then restore the DOS-box to it's original size (on
all of the machines that I've used, anyway). Making an attempt to restore the
DOS-box to it's original size and you get a blank screen

In other words - once you "full-screen" a DOS-box, you can't get out of it again.
Alt-ENTER which SHOULD get it to swap between full-screen and restored modes, gets
you a completely black screen, from which, one cannot navigate.

The only way I have found to recover from this without re-booting, is to get the PC
into suspend-mode and then restore full power again - this re-initializes the video
adaptor and gets you your screen back.

This is harder to do than it sounds - I have a shortcut made on the desktop that
sends the PC into hibernation (accomplishes the same thing) and set the shortcut to
have a key-combination to activate it with a simple Shift+Ctrl+H key-press.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.


P.S. To make a shortcut to send the PC into hibernation mode from the desktop - use
the following line as the target for the shortcut :

RUNDLL32.EXE PowrProf.dll,SetSuspendState