Re: Windows 7, again

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

I strongly advise against changing the video driver. You want the best
and most recent video driver you can get, that actually works. In my
experience with laptops, that can be hard. Nvidia drivers are especially
bad, and always have been. It is important to get a good driver because
if you have a buggy one, all kinds of unnecessary system instability
results. Usually

the best driver is the one that comes with the laptop. It will be the
only one that was actually rigorously tested to work with that laptop.
But it is possible to find better, later ones sometimes. Just be sure
that you are well-equipped to revert, gracefully, if necessary. I will
experiment with the font settings when I have a minute to see if I can
get the XyWrite screen into a position where it is frozen small. I expect
that is your problem. FYI, on a 1920 x 1080 screen, I specify 22 pt
Lucida Console for XyWrite, Screen width 80, Screen height 43 (with the
appropriate adjustment in XyWrite), and that gives me a XyWrite that
nearly fills the available vertical space of the screen and looks and
works very well.




At 05/11/2013 15:37, you wrote:

I thought I had tried just about
every variation you could try in those properties boxes.  But, I had
not tried going to a font larger than 12 pt. Lucida Console, and will try
that next -- likely on Thursday or Friday when I'm there again.  And
in the meantime I'll have a chance to consider what Flash just
sent.


I don't think I'll mess with reverting the video driver to XP level . .
.  unless they tell me they can't stand that Aero business, which
could certainly happen.  I'm none too keen on it myself, though I've
learned to tolerate it for Win-7, as it has both pros and cons.


For the moment, the successes I've had going with XP Mode on that laptop
outweigh switching to a different VM solution, which would almost
certainly entail jumping through a bunch of extra hoops, and plenty of
extra work.  But that could change too.




   Jordan








From: Bill Troop 


To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx


Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 6:21 AM


Subject: Re: Windows 7, again




Well, waste no time trying to get full screen, because that will
never happen. But it should be possible to stretch the window to any
size. Playing with the various property boxes, is it not possible to do
this? I would be interested to know how to create the problem.



At 05/11/2013 02:16, you wrote:


I was back where the laptop currently is this afternoon, and made the
attached snapshot.  There seems to be no setting in the program or
shortcut Properties that can fix this.  The error message is
"Video Device Failed to Initialize Fullscreen."  That
applies to ALT-ENTER, or any other method known to me.  Similarly,
the window cannot be stretched in any direction. 



(As I said -- a 3 x 5 card.  If this image is not detailed
enough, I also have a TIFF version, though it's quite a bit
larger.)



My recollection is that Harry or some other member(s) of the List
have posted in the past about encountering hardware / OS circumstances in
which Xy could *only* be run as a window.  Probably not limited to
being a window _this_ small, but that may be another story.



   Jordan