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Question:
I have used DOS-based XyWrite for years and still rank
it as one of the best raw text-processing programs. In
operating systems as recent as Windows XP Professional,
I was able to open XyWrite as an easy-to-use full-screen
window. But Windows Vista, which came on my two new Dell
PCs, lets me open only a small window for XyWrite. The
not-yet-released Windows 7 holds out the promise of
rectifying this problem, but I can't find out if its
"XP Mode" will let me open a full-screen
window for my old DOS program. Will it?
Answer:
No, the Windows 7 option called "XP Mode"
can't provide you with a full-screen view of an old DOS
program.
That's
too bad, because I'm also a fan of XyWrite, the speedy
Ferrari of word processing programs in the 1980s, before
Microsoft's
DOS (disk operating system) was replaced by Windows. I
kept using XyWrite until Windows XP made running DOS
programs more difficult; you persevered by changing the
XP options menu to make XyWrite full-screen again.
Unfortunately,
that's no longer possible. You can get only a
quarter-screen view with the pre-release version of
Windows 7 that doesn't include XP Mode. Even with XP
Mode, you'll get less than a full-screen view because of
the Windows 7 screen display and the inherent graphics
limitations of DOS, said
Biju Venugopal
, senior program manager of
Microsoft
virtualization.
But don't
feel too bad; you might not have been able to run XP
Mode anyway. It only works on PCs that have
Intel
"virtualization technology" or AMD-V processor
chips. (Find out if you've got the right
Intel
chips by downloading the "Intel Processor
Identification Utility" at www.intel.com/support/processors/tools/piu/).
But maybe it's time to upgrade from XyWrite.
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Q: I
recently replaced my
Microsoft Office
2003 software with Office 2007, but then found that the
Microsoft Office Document Imaging feature had
disappeared. How can I get it back?
A:
"Office Document Imaging," which allows you to
create a print file of a document on one PC and carry it
via flash drive to another PC for printing, is available
in Office 2007 but isn't automatically installed during
set-up. You have to install it separately. Go to
tinyurl.com/ytjsxm.
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