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



peregrine@xxxxxxxx wrote:
after an earlier 256x256-pixel version sent to Patricia was not successful for her.

Well, the problem then was that Vista wouldn't accept ANY icon
but the plain-piece-of-paper one for a DOS app until I discovered
Ed Mendelson's and Robert's workaround.

A further wrinkle on the scalable icon issue: I was originally
running Vista with the out-of-the-box screen fonts and icon
sizes. That was OK at my brother's, where the lighting
(California daylight for the most part) is much better. Here in
NJ, with incandescent lights, I found I needed something larger,
so went into Accessibility and upped the icon and Desktop font
size. The icon for cmd.exe didn't scale, though all the others
did: I'm seeing part of a letter c. It's recognizable, which is
all that matters, but seems to be further evidence that Big
Brother Bill REALLY doesn't want you using a command line.
Jeff, if you ever get the time, could you please post some tips on getting Xy running on DOSemu under Linux? That's really the way I WANT to go.
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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx