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dos in fullscreen lcd monitor
Name: hesham hussiem Date: September 25, 2001 at 16:07:28 Pacific
Comment:
dear sir,
I am currently running DOS on my sony vaio pcg-fx Notebook (my operating system win98) .My programs are not displayed on the full LCD screen area, but on a smaller, centered window about half the size of the display. Can anyone tell me if there's a way I can set up DOS to utilize my fullscreen????? please help me as soon as possible . thanks,
Name: Larry Date: September 25, 2001 at 19:39:06 Pacific
Reply:
It's a driver and resolution issue. Same thing on my ThinkPad.
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Response Number 2
Name: Sv Broholm Date: September 25, 2001 at 20:14:31 Pacific
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If you are running in a DOS-box try maximize the window by pressing Alt-Enter. To shift back press Alt-Enter once more time.
Hope this will help you. Svend Broholm
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Response Number 3
Name: Jeff Date: October 10, 2001 at 13:28:31 Pacific
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This has nothing to do with drivers... it's caused by the way a LCD screen works. A CRT (regular computer monitor) can change its resolution and pixel size, but an LCD has a fixed resolution and pixel size. DOS runs at something like 320 X 240 at the command line, so it gets shrunk down when it uses your LCD's small pixels. To see what I mean, change your windows resolution to 640 X 480. The pixels get all blurry, right? That's because each one is made of a few pixels rather than one larger pixel, like on a CRT.
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Response Number 4
Name: Joe Halloran Date: January 2, 2002 at 10:44:26 Pacific
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I have the same issue on desktop machines - the dos window is halfsize and going to full screen does not help - any suggestions?
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Response Number 5
Name: Jack Date: March 8, 2002 at 13:52:07 Pacific
Reply:
Here's how I fixed that problem on my Sony PCG N505VX: From Windows 98 restart in MSDOS mode At the C:\ prompt press Fn + F Screen expands to full size Good Luck
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