Re: DOS app icons Under Vista (A Fix?)

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx wrote:

And a little further digging brought this:


http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/vista.html




Now this looks worthwhile. E. Mendelson again? One smart tech. I
had been thinking of trying both the batchfile workaround
(despite Robert's dire warnings against bat files). And was
vaguely remembering that Carl launches with an initial call to
command.com or cmd.exe.


Later:

OK, both workarounds work, but with neither can you specify the
memory allocation. Shortcuts to batch files don't have a "Memory"
tab on their pif properties page (not even in XP), nor do ones to
cmd.exe. And if you use command.com as your VDM kernel, you
CANNOT change its icon. In short, you can have control of memory
allocation for a DOS app or you can have a pretty-picture icon on
your desktop, but not both. (My opinion of such arrogance is not
printable.)


The question is, how necessary is that memory allocation setting
for Xy? (It is absolutely essential for dBase 5 for DOS, which
has to have 8 Mb of DOS Protected mode; needed it even under
DOS.) I have had Xy crash, even under 9x, when those values
weren't set right (auto for everything except EMS, which is 5120,
and uses HMA checked). I now have 2 Xy shortcuts on my Vista
desktop: the one with memory allocation and a white piece of
paper icon, and the one with no memory allocation and Robert's
nice red and blue icon. I'll use the second, set autosave to as
short an interval as I can, and see what happens, with the other
one on the desktop to fall back on.


Thanks, Bry, for that lead. Would you please post the URL of that
page, so we can see his other comments.


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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx