Possible way of forcind Win98 to use large fonts

["Paul" pbreeze@xxxxxxxx]

I've been struggling over the past year trying to get XYWin to work in Win95
and then Win98 with large fonts so that I can use 1024x768 resolution. I'd
given up, but recently, on trying again, I found that it seemed to be
working. I thought it was due to the upgrade to Win98, but oh, no. It was
a virus program I was running. When I removed it, small fonts reappeared.

It does seem, however, that this may offer a way of forcing Win98 (I've not
tried it with Win95) and XYWin to cooperate. The trick appears to be to run
a DOS program (my anti-virus software ran a DOS box on bootup) from the
registry.

The DOS program has to be set up as a key in:
HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices.

I have been able to put a dummy batch program that does nothing in here and,
fingers-crossed, I am getting large fonts reliably. One word of warning,
however. If I make any changes to the display from display settings then
XYWin reverts to small fonts again. I have to go back into display
settings, reset small fonts, reboot, go into display settings again and
select large fonts, reboot, and everything seems ok.

If anyone is interested, I can mail the dummy batch program.

Paul Breeze