Re: New monitor/bad resolution

[Jon Pareles xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

Hello back atcha Leslie!

I did some Googling and it seems that Cleartype was one of the upgrades of Windows XP, and Microsoft
never added it to ME or Win98.

Loath as you may be to do it, I'd recommend the new computer option. I'm frankly amazed that you're
not having problems browsing the Web on Windows ME, given that websites are constantly demanding the
latest Flash player or Java plugins.

 Desktops are now ridiculously cheap, and so are little ultraportable netbooks that weigh less than
4 lbs. $500 would buy you computing power or portability undreamed of by your Dell. On a new
computer, all you'd have to do is copy the directory that includes Editor.exe, and wherever else
you've stashed XyWrite files, and move them to the new computer.

I've had good luck with CDW and PC Mall mail-orders. Their phone salespeople seem to actually know
what they're talking about, unlike Staples clerks.

See if you can find a Windows XP Professional computer instead of Vista, which is a hog of resources
and an incompatibility nightmare (though apparently it does work well with XY). The wonderful people
on this list can help you with any migration problems, as they have helped me, but most of the time
the XyWrite installation works from the get-go.

On another front, that unreliable source Wikipedia does like "copasetic" the way I spelled
it. Though now I'm tempted to switch to copacetic, even if it looks a bit like a vinegary policeman.


Jon Pareles