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• My msdos program used to run full screen in Windows XP. Now, it occupies the upper third of the screen complete with the rest with scrolling and black.

  My old program MS - Dos ran full-screen in earlier versions of Windows, including earlier versions of Windows XP. Because of something in one of the updates is now the top third only in mode full screen, with the rest of the screen black, white and scrollable (as the Windows XP version of the command prompt has always been). How to return to a usable full-screen version (that is, the previous version of MS-DOS)?

  Hi Robert,.

  Please see the link below for the procedure to correct this problem.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/272447

  Good luck.

• Graphics problems during the game Age of Empire II in mode full screen in Windows 7

  Original title: screen resolution and/or graphics problem with Windows 7.

  Hi, I had currently two computers in my house upgraded to windows 7, one a Vista XP.

  I am trying to run Age Of Empires 2 on both computers, the game has installed and running with ease, however it won't let you play the game in full screen, and also the color of things like grass and trees appear in red and orange, water displays brilliant purple.

  I tried to change the windows screen resolution and the resolution of the options in the game, but it only changes in the percentage of the screen resolution, that he chooses to play in.

  I can solve this? All advice is appreciated and thanks in advance.

  PS I tried to reinstall and update graphic drivers, both computers have the same problem of new clean installations of windows and Age of Empires 2.

  Thank you

  It is a problem due to the fact that AOE 2 was built on the platform Windows 95/98 Win9x. It will expose a few graphical artifacts while playing. You can try setting compatibility Win98 or Win95 check. There is also a workaround that may work in my opinion. You will need to search for "how to run StarCraft (1) on Windows 7" in Bing (Alternatively, Google: P) and it would show a site with a .bat file that could solve the problem of graphics in fullscreen.

  I hope this helps.

  What I did with StarCraft was this:

  On the desktop, right-click and select new text Document. Inside the Document, type this

  Taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
  D:\"StarCraft"\"StarCraft.exe".
  Start explorer.exe

  Just replace the location of StarCraft with the location of the AOE II.

  Save the file as: 'AOEII.bat' and then set the file type to the text file to all files.

  What happens is that if corrects the discoloration and restart the explorer again after the end of the game. Although there is no easy way to change the icon of the good bat file: P

• Rise of Nations help? Game does not play in full screen? Windows 7 Edition Home Premium.

  I installed the birth of the United Nations, the original game on my computer to windows 7 Home premium and will not play the game in full screen. She always cut the sides of the black vertical column set. I tried everything: image format, right-click and do different stuff with the properties, nothing seems to work. It may be a problem with the compatibility? If so, what can I do about it?

  Hi SkulzAILD,

  1. which edition of Rise of Nations do you use?

  You can read the following article and try the steps to solve the problem.

  Known graphics issues in Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/917715

  Also read the following article:

  Known graphics issues in Rise of Nations

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/820089

  Hope this information is useful.

  Jeremy K
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Windows 7 does not show the game in full screen...

  I had windows Vista Home Basic Edition and we showed all of the games in full screen. Know that I gave full seven windows, which do not show any game in full screen and what I can do?
  Thanks for any response.

  Hello

  If you would please provide details on the game you play?  Also, have you tried to hit F11 and attempt to place the game in Mode full-screen.  In addition, check with the OEM of the game to check if there was an options in the game to use Mode full screen.  I hope that this information is beneficial.

  Thank you

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• Runnning BACK full screen in Windows Vista

  I try to open and read some of my old school games, but I am unable to get the screen BACK to run full-screen mode.  I have no idea what to do from here.  I think I'm under the 32-bit version of Vista.

  Hello

  Welcome to Microsoft Windows 7 answers Forum!

  The problem occurs because the Windows device drivers support all video modes BACK running. Windows device drivers are based on the Mode operating system display driver. You must contact the manufacturer of the driver or display adapter to get help.

  Link for reference: 16-bit command prompt and BACK Some programs won't work in mode full screen in Windows Vista

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/926657

  For more information you can visit the link to the forum below.

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7programs/thread/043e6633-0799-4fa1-97BF-3f7dfc6885be

  Hope this has helped

  Thank you, and in what concerns:

  Suresh Kumar-Microsoft Support.

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• Start a game in full screen on two monitors

  So, recently, I got a new monitor and I tried to run a game in full screen on the primary and another thing on the second. However, when I click on the full screen on the second monitor, it minimizes the game, EVE Online. is there a workaround for this other then put the game in windowed mode.

  I use a (e):
  ATI 5000 video card
  AMD Phenom II x 4 945
  8 GB Ram
  Win 7 x 64

  Usually not.

  Most of the Games capture the mouse when it is full screen, a click of the mouse on the outside will minimize.  There are a few games now supporting mode without a border, so they can watch full screen but are not actually around this problem.

  Paul Smith - MVP for Windows desktop experience... I crawled off NNTP - for now. Detachment Aldershot, United Kingdom. On the internet atwindowsresource.net and dasmirnov.net. Please post back to let us know what works and what does not. :-)

• Why my computer displays a white screen when I try to see a game mode full screen?

  whenever I try to view a game in full screen, my screen becomes white

  Salvation of the knee-c,

  1. Did you the latest changes on the computer?
  2. Are you experiencing a similar problem with several games on the computer?
  3. When was the last time it was working fine?
  4. You receive an error message?
  5. You have security software installed on the computer?

  Method 1

  I suggest that reduce you the hardware acceleration on your computer and check if it helps.

  (a) click Start, click Run, type desk.cpl, and then click OK.

  (b) click on the settings tab and then click Advanced.

  (c) in the performance tab or on the Troubleshooting tab, and then move the Hardware Acceleration slider to the left.

  (d) click OKand then click close.

  (e) If you are prompted to restart your computer, click Yes.

   Method 2

  If the previous step fails then I would suggest that you manually download and install the updated on the computer graphics card drivers by visiting the adapter or the computer manufacturer's website and check, if it helps.

  How to manage devices in Windows XP

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/283658

• Satellite A300-215 - cannot get the mode full screen

  Hi people!

  Yesterday bought a beautiful 215 Satellite A300 - Intel Core 2 Duo / P8700 / 2.53 Ghz / 15. 4 WXGA / * Radeon HD 3650 * / 400GO
  "Works like a Ferrari, but has a problem of querky get a full screen whenever I try to play any media, for example watching footy, movies, the screen will just go *" FULL SCREEN "*: (: (, tried my best change the display resolutions in the control panel in all possible ways, but can't it upwards with a full screen full.))"

  Downloaded yet another driver nvidia video driver that corresponds with the books of Toshiba, but it does not work. The current driver I have to view it of ATI Mobility Radeon 3650, also of no assistance?

  When I try to set the resolution fpr the wmp player or player spvod to fit the entire screen, the page turns just huge, unmanageable, it's fine with laptop functions, no problem. at all, but not possible to take advantage of any media-magnified.

  Strongly, I'd appreciate it if someone could help me please solve this, thanks in advance! Soon :)

  Hi Amor,

  > Downloaded yet another driver nvidia video driver
  Are you kidding me? : D
  Why you are downloading a nVidia display driver if you have a Radeon HD 3650 graphics card?
  I put t understand this

  Anyway, you have full screen in Windows, or this only happens if you play any media?

  In addition, it would be interesting to know if you have installed XP yourself or was it is preinstalled on your laptop? You should test it with OS preinstalled Toshiba, maybe that s a software problem.

  Also make sure that this latest version of the BIOS is installed and verify in the display settings, the image format Options. It must be set to full screen.

• Slideshow full screen in windows live photo gallery.

  How can I change slide show to run full screen? I can run in a window?

  Hi fzum,
  
  Given that slide shows are designed to work in full screen and I'm afraid of what I would be not possible to run in windowed mode.
   
  For more information about the settings for the slide show in Windows Live Photo Gallery, visit the link below:
  See the photos as a slide show
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/see-pictures-as-a-slide-show
   
  Hope that answers your question.

  Thank you, and in what concerns:
  Shekhar S - Microsoft technical support.

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• Run full screen automatically?

  My Captivate simulation should be run full screen. Rather than having a page with links where the learner can click, links must be integrated into a PowerPoint presentation (I know, I know, but that's what they want). My client wants to avoid having Internet Explorer window open with a "click here... full screen" link. I don't know no way to put this in a PPT file, so I wonder if anyone has done the IE window redirect the version full screen with a code to redirect (or something) to automatically run the simulation mode full-screen. (Phew! That there any sense?)
  
  Thanks in advance!

  Hi LJezsik and welcome to the forums!

  Full screen in the browser is available by opening a new window (where the "full screen" link) or incorporating it in an ActiveX control custom.

  I would exclude the ActiveX option, since it is both technically difficult (I saw it done once, but don't know how) and only works for Internet Explorer in any case.

  This leaves the new approach of the window. A redirect is not an option... the "full screen" cannot apply even if a window is first opened, and even in this case only when the window is open in Javascript.

  The best you can hope is to open a page that opens another page in full screen, immediately adding some verbiage to the first page that says something like "content has opened in a new window. It's safe to close this window.

  An example of the "autolauncher" page is included below as an example. It does not use the 'full screen' setting of the window.open() method because it is open in IE6, which doesn't seem to give the user a way to close the new window once. You can easily change this by setting the parameter to yes in the code below.

• I get a page_fault_in_nonpaged_area blue screen after Windows update yesterday.

  Hello
  I get a page_fault_in_nonpaged_area blue screen after Windows update yesterday. To do this, that every time I try to start the system.

  Whenever I try to start it gives options to start in safe mode, safe mode with network, safe mode with prompt etc., but all these options find you on the same blue screen with the error mentioned above, then it tries to restart with the same behavior over and over again.

  Any guidance will be appreciated. Thnx Nick

  Hello

  If you meet this new,
  http://mikemstech.blogspot.com/2011/12/troubleshooting-0x50.html

• Some games run very slow on Windows 8, as...

  Some games run very slow on Windows 8 as (chicken Invasion "v1, v2, v3" in red alert 2, Age of Empire 2)
  but on Windows 7 on the same Machine perform perfectly, I tried to install DirectX,.
  and tried to install the latest Version of the Driver VGA for Windows8 and tried to change VGA (Nvidia, AMD, Intel)
  but the games (not all games just a few) still running slow...? !!!
  Help, please...

  Wrong, wrong, wrong.

  This is entirely based on compatibility to a level beyond what is offered in the standard "Windows compatibility" section.  In addition to this, everything you said had absolutely nothing to do with the question.  This has nothing to do with starting or whatever it is in the same direction.

  What is happening is that something is interfering with the normal functioning of the game because of changes in the kernel of the operating system because it has been updated / rewritten since the inception of Windows XP.

  @SOVIETTION
  The most likely solution for you has nothing to do with the videobuffer here is how fix you it:

  Find the Red Alert installation directory and find the file * md.ini.
  In revenge for Red Alert 2/Yuri, it will be 'RA2MD. INI"(feel free to make a backup of the file before proceeding)
  Open it with your favorite text editor (Notepad for most people)
  Scroll down until you find the section [Video]
  Just below you will add this line-
  VideoBackBuffer = no
  Save the file in the same place and load the game.

  Enjoy!

  The VideoBackBuffer = none works perfectly, but in my case I also had to set the compatibility mode to Windows XP SP2.

  Bravo for you!

• My XI Acrobat Standard 11.0.09 lost menu bar (F9) and crazy jumps full screen, losing windows buttons high bar, passing just above the menu bar with the mouse cursor, without clicking.

  My XI Acrobat Standard 11.0.09 lost menu bar (F9) and crazy jumps full screen, losing windows buttons high bar, passing just above the menu bar with the mouse cursor, without clicking.

  Yes, it's important somehow. Kapersky broke it somehow and fixed. http://Forum.Kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=307391&HL=Adobe

• Windows minimizing on its own in the case of videos and games in full screen. How can I fix it?

  Hi this problem began about five days there, whenever I play a game or watch a movie on wmp or online in windows mode full screen will minimize the progam at random to the Office on its own without telling me the things too, it never used it happen would be to stay in full screen until I left or reduced to a minimum he me (as you can imagine it can get a) bit annoying during a movie or in the middle of a game). It is not that good with computers so really don't know too much to start. I have not installed anything new or changed settings, the only thing I think that is changed is windows updates may be installed something again. Any help most appericated.

  found the solution on another thread. Its a problem with AVG 9.0. If you visit http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-free-forum?sec=thread&act=show&id=40443 , you can download a fix. : D