Re: W2K display settings

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

OK. Win2K is improved beyond all recognition. Apparently, in my
most-used XP install (from a pre-existing image), an earlier edition
of Guest Additions had been installed - - that is now updated. But it
hadn't been installed in my fresh installs of XP; now that it has,
they seem to be viable. Win2K looks really great. It is amazing how
the additions make the pointer tenable.


HOWEVER, bafflingly, in both Win2K and all XP instances, I still
cannot XyWrite to access the drive letter assigned to the host hard
drive. If I exit to DOS from XyWrite, and type 'dir S:' 'dir e:' or
whatever, the directory comes through fine. It is only in XyWrite
itself that I get this baffling 'file not found' message.


In addition the Jumbo registry doesn't seem to want to install on
Win2K. Maybe it's just a path problem? That I don't know how to fix?


This does not happen with XP on Win7-64.

Has anyone any idea how to troubleshoot?

At 16/01/2014 15:02, you wrote:
> If you have installed Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions (check
> from 'Add programs' in W2K), you should gain access to VirtualBox
> Graphics Adapter. Issue a couple of host key + F commands to fix
> resolutions. The VM may need to be switched full screen. To
> troubleshoot Guest Additions, remove them from 'Add programs' and
> reinstall. Should work, keep trying...
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
> lexitec@xxxxxxxx
>
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>
> 16.1.2014 16:41, Bill Troop wrote:
> > Kari you wrote, quoted below, that in W2K under VB my display
> > should be 'VirtualBox Graphics Adapter'. But it is VGA with choices
> > only of 640x480 and 800x600. Is there a way to change the adapter? Many thanks.
> >
> >
> > At 13/12/2013 07:23, you wrote:
> > > You can get at least 1024x768 in any configuration using
> > > VirtualBox, probably more. To configure VirtualBox screen size go
> > > to fullscreen (host+F), Desktop context menu, display settings.
> > > Make sure you have VirtualBox additions installed. In this dialog,
> > > you should have 'VirtualBox Graphics Adapter'. I use a
> > > multi-display configuration to run virtualization solutions, for
> > > VirtualPC and VirtualBox I have 4:3 ratio Samsung 21 inch display
> > > at 1024x768. Font rendering and graphics are quite adequate. Then
> > > again I do not complain about the rather rugged aspect of the Win
> > > 3.1 Quark display, when I print it to a PS file and distill it to
> > > a PDF, the result is picture-perfect on the Win 7 side. In this
> > > case the Win 3.1 display is just a sketch of things that
> > > materialize on the other side, on the screen or on paper.
> > >
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Kari Eveli
> > > LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
> > > lexitec@xxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > *** Lexitec Online ***
> > > Lexitec in English: http://www.lexitec.fi/english.html
> > > Home page in Finnish: http://www.lexitec.fi/
> > >
> > >
> > > 13.12.2013 0:41, Bill Troop wrote:
> > > > Needless to say, these observations are only based on my limited
> > > > experience with the limited instances of W2K and XP I am using.
> > > > For example, the W2K I am using, as vanilla installed, will only
> > > > go up to 800x600 for its virtual screen, whilst XP (along with
> > > > VB) immediately knows that it is on a hi-dpi screen and adjusts
> > > > accordingly. Perhaps if I knew more about Win2K I would be able
> > > > to overcome this limitation, but as far as I know, nothing will
> > > > bring ClearType font rendering to Win2K.