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energywalker
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| I have a business client thats wants a better way to run a dos business program on XP, then the built in shell/emulator that comes with XP. (XP dos' capablity is serverly limited, and will not run the business app properly)
Anyone have any suggestions?
energywalker
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furrfu
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| He may be out of luck ... not all DOS programs work with XP. Have you increased the compatibility settings? Go to the properties of the program or shortcut, select compatibility tab, enable compatibility for Win95 (that's the earliest and least restrictive settings), enable the 256 colors and 640x480 settings. Then cross your fingers!
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LooseChanj
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 10:51 am Post subject: |
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I have a business client thats wants a better way to run a dos business program on XP, then the built in shell/emulator that comes with XP. (XP dos' capablity is serverly limited, and will not run the business app properly)
Anyone have any suggestions?
energywalker |
What's the app? And how badly does it run, if at all? Is it something in common use, or a home-brewed kind of thing? The latter are usually the worst when it comes to compatibility. |
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energywalker
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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The client is speaking with the programer
Access to business is limited
It is a specific piece of software
I wish I had it at the shop to play with and see if I can tweak it...maybe I'll ask for a copy
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goretsky
Joined: Dec 07, 2002
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Location: Southern California
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 2:11 am Post subject: |
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Hello,
The developer of the client's custom solution may want to grab a copy of the QFixApp from Microsoft, which helps identify code incompatible with Microsoft Windows XP. It's also included in the much-larger Application Compatibility Toolkit package, which they may want to download after trying QFixApp.
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Aryeh Goretsky |
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oftentired
Joined: Jan 01, 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 7:35 am Post subject: |
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if all else fails
computer are cheap buy one and run win98 on it
or set the XP box up to dual boot Win98 |
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