If your system locks up, press the power button to turn it off and start it again. To prevent this from happening, run Windows Update search Windows Help if you do not know how to do so. When you see the list of available updates you may need to click on a link labeled something like "3 optional updates available", although probably with a different number from "3" , find the entry for the video driver; right-click that entry and select "Hide this update" or some similar option.
Windows will not attempt to update the driver until a new version of the driver becomes available at the Windows Update site.
In the list of devices, press the plus sign next to "Display Adapters" to expand the list; find the entry for your video hardware; right-click that item; choose Properties, then go to the Driver tab, and click "Roll Back Driver"; follow the prompts, and restart to complete the process. Note: Before performing the steps described here, you almost certainly will need to disable Vista's User Access Control UAC security feature until you have completed making the changes.
If Windows will not let you open the relevant files, or bothers you with prompts, download and run TweakUAC and turn off UAC or switch it to "quiet mode"; restart your computer to make the change to UAC effective. Later, when you are finished making and testing the changes suggested here, run the utility again to restore UAC, and restart your computer again.
Begin by visiting the EMS Magic web page to read about the program. Download the Windows Installer version from the program's download page, and run the installer. Run this menu item or shortcut to open a command prompt that supplies expanded memory. The following instructions apply to EMS Magic version 2. You should not attempt to use any version of EMS Magic that has a lower version number than 2. If you have installed Tame , it will not be available in this EMS-enabled command prompt until you perform some further steps.
First, open a command prompt and enter the following line exactly as it appears here including the quotation marks and spaces :. When the file opens in Notepad, move the cursor to the foot of the file and press Enter to create a new line.
Leave the file open in Notepad. Next, download this EditAutoexec. Run the file; when the Autoexec. Close this copy of Notepad without making any change to the file. Now switch to the other copy of Notepad that you opened earlier and left open; be certain that the cursor is at the foot of the file, and press Ctrl-V to paste in the the line that runs Tame.
Close the file, and respond Yes when prompted to save the changed contents. If your printer is a standard laser printer that is connected to your computer by a parallel port, then WP will print normally under Vista. If your printer is connected by a USB cable or across a network, but uses a WP printer driver not one of the methods found on this site for printing to any Windows printer , then you can use one of this site's methods for printing to USB or networked printers; follow either this site's instructions for the DOSPrint method of printing to a USB printer or the instructions for the PrintFile method of printing to a USB printer.
If you have a Windows-only printer and require one of this site's methods of printing to any Windows printer , then you may want to experiment with the methods on the linked page. Most, possibly all, of the methods described on that page should work with Windows Vista.
For security reasons, however, Vista will not allow traditional batch files to perform certain actions, such as copying files. If you run WPDOS from a batch file that also performs such actions as copying a file, you must edit the batch file so that a command that now reads something like this:. Consider starting a new topic instead.
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One of the downsides of these new drivers is that full-screen is no longer supported for console Command Prompt applications. This means that you can no longer make the Command Prompt full-screen in Windows Vista, 7, 8, or 8. You can use the following workaround to make the window take up the whole screen, but it won't be true full-screen.
You can disable your video card drivers, but you'll lose the Aero theme in Windows and your screen resolution will max out at x See the next section for details. This program emulates the DOS environment and allows you to run programs full-screen. See the last section for details.
Open the Start menu. You'll need to start the Command Prompt as an administrator, which you can do from the Start menu. Right-click "Command Prompt" and select "Run as administrator". If you aren't logged in with an administrator account, you'll need to enter the administrator password. Type wmic in the Command Prompt and press. Don't worry about using this tool, you'll only be using it to trick the Command Prompt into maximizing the window. You'll notice that the prompt will change.
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