Re: U2 glitches (Xy4 in Win98)

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Carl writes:

> Explicit, step-by-step instructions for creating a shortcut on the
> desktop? Anyone?

I'll have a shot. For Judith and anyone else working in Win98:

First, using mouse or trackpad, right-click anywhere on the Windoze desktop.
A menu will pop up (unless you've disabled it in your control panel somehow,
which some people do). In that menu, click "New" and then click "Shortcut" on
the resulting sub-menu.

A box will pop up, in which you must enter the full path to XyWrite's
EDITOR.EXE plus any other command line instructions. Mine looks like this:

c:\windows\xywrite\editor /e4000

(as Carl was saying a few messages back in this thread, the "/e4000" addendum
enables Xy's maximum allowable 4MB of expanded memory)

When you've done this, click "Next" and you'll be asked to give the shortcut
a name (the default Microsoft offers is the actual filename, in this case
Editor.exe, but call it XyWrite or whatever you prefer). Next you'll be asked
to select an icon, and it's best to just take whatever is offered at this
point and work out the niceties later.

Now you will have a little icon on your desktop called "XyWrite" or whatever
you opted to call it. Right-click on it and select "Properties" in the
resulting menu. Then you can make the memory adjustment (because I'm using
the /e4000 switch, I've set expanded memory to 4400 kb in the Memory section,
for example, but left everything else set to "auto").

Other handy changes you may want to make, though what follows might be more
personal preference than functional necessity:

"Close on exit" should be checked under the Program tab -- otherwise you're
left with an inactive DOS window still on the screen when you quit XyWrite.
Under "Run" just above the "Close on exit" checkbox, I also choose
"Maximized."

Under the "Screen" tab, I choose "Full screen" in the "usage" box.
Under the
"Misc" tab, I disallow the screen saver. Other settings may or may not be of
much concern, but I also recall a recent reminder on this list to include the
active XyWrite directory in the Path statement (in Autoexec.bat) at bootup.
That solved some problem or other for me.

Then say OK to all of it and close all those boxes, double-click on the new
"shortcut" and you're off!

I hope this helps, Judith.

Jeff