Re: Problems opening a DOS program from Win ME

Diver_Doc wrote:
> My front office desk is running Win ME, and runs ME because I need to
> run a DOS program to do billing.

> My problem is this:

> Very often, when I invoke the program, I get a simple black screen

> More often, I get a blue BSOD - looking screen but which has a
> flashing cursor in the top left, and if I hold th escape key down, I
> can bring up the login screen in my DOS program, and once I am through
> it, entering username and password, everything is fine.
(Snip)

> I would most appreciate any suggestions on how I may reliably bring up
> my DOS program, as the ESC key thing is a pain and the frequent
> reboots necessary to even get that are worse.
>
> S.

*** This problem sometimes also happens when one tries to run DOS games
under Windows. My suggestion is to go into "DOS Properties" for your
program and tell it to run the application as though it's the only one
running.

I forget the actual wording for this selection, but it fools the
program into thinking it's running by itself on a DOS-only machine.
Reports give varying success with this option, but try it to see if your
difficulty is resolved.

Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
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