Re: Windows 7, again

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Jordan, I too installed on a 17-inch laptop - - a Dell. But the error
message sounds like it thought you were trying to go full screen, while
you thought you were just trying to enlarge the screen. I would think the
cure lies in the shortcut box. This is probably the kind of problem where
you should be working with someone who can take over your screen.
Speaking of which I have been using Chrome Remote Desktop with some
success, even going from Win to Mac successfully (until recently when a
bug, now, we all hope fixed, inverted the Mac screens).


At 03/11/2013 16:38, you wrote:

What I don't know is the extent
to which this may be hardware specific.  I was trying to accomplish
this on a Lenovo T-530 laptop.  (A 17" screen, I think.  I
don't have it here at the moment, having reached a pause point in setting
it up for others.)  If your usage was on a desktop rig, we could
have an apples & oranges situation here.  That could apply even
for another laptop: we'd have to compare the video hardware
components.  But, if your differing results had anything to do with
some config tricks I did not know, I would be eager to learn them. 
I kept running into an error along the lines of "Cannot virtualize
full-screen" whenever I tried to enlarge Xy beyond that 3 x 5 card
size.




   Jordan








From: Bill Troop 


To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx


Sent: Saturday, November 2, 2013 11:48 AM


Subject: Re: Windows 7, again




Using Win 7-64, I have been running Xywrite under XP in XP Mode and
have never had any problems with it. The screen size and screen font are
as customizable as they are under XP. I did not have the unfortunate
experiences that Jordan did. However, I would much rather use Virtual Box
because (a) your Win 7 environment would be easy to bring into Win 8.1 if
or when I needed to and (b) because I could easily run MacOS under
VirtualBox at the same time. You can't run both XP Mode and Virtual Box
at the same time. All of that said, I have yet to get XP or W2K or any
other Windows working in VB on Win 7 yet. Maybe I'm trying to do
something too difficult, like getting Win 3.1 to work - - on Kari's
advice that it is probably the best way to get XyWrite running.