how to run ms-dos (full screen) in windows vista?

beautycorp · 21-Mar-2007, 03:37 PM #1

Hello.. does anybody knows how to run ms-dos (full screen) in windows vista?

**JohnWill** · 22-Mar-2007, 12:36 PM #2

Vista doesn't support full screen MS-DOS sessions. That being the case, I guess the answer to your question is no, I don't know how to do it.

uhaligani · 22-Mar-2007, 01:08 PM #3

I think there is a program called a "DosBox" on the web, which MIGHT allow you to do it. I know it woked in XP but have no feedback on Vista.

**JohnWill** · 22-Mar-2007, 05:59 PM #4

It won't allow full screen sessions.

darkhut · 22-Jul-2007, 09:24 AM #5

yes it works under vista, i had it crashing a couple of times, but im on a laptop so who knows.

**JohnWill** · 22-Jul-2007, 02:23 PM #6

The crashing should be a clue.

darkhut · 22-Jul-2007, 09:57 PM #7

yea well, there are other strange things in vista. dosbox is usable, after the first time it starts acting, you restart it and its pretty much ok. I was playing wolfenstein3d on vista lol. thats all you can ask from laptop running vista, the overhead of this os is huge

jacob_lucky4 · 23-Jul-2007, 12:58 AM #8

As you probably know Ms-dos is what used to run windows completly but the only windows programs that use the full dos system are windows 95 and 98. Windows today runs on a completly diffrent program witch represents DOS but isn't actually the program.
So to run Dos on vista u would have to run it through command prompt but first you would have to download it. Doing this could prove to be dangerous to your computer because Ms-DOS and windows vista would not reconise each other and try and deactivate each other witch could end up destroying both of them.

**Elvandil** · 23-Jul-2007, 02:02 AM #9

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Originally Posted by jacob_lucky4

Doing this could prove to be dangerous to your computer because Ms-DOS and windows vista would not reconise each other and try and deactivate each other witch could end up destroying both of them.

Do you play a lot of video games? LOL

uhaligani · 23-Jul-2007, 07:19 AM **#10**

You can pretty close by right clicking the top bar and altering the sizes. I found that having the Screen buffer and the Window size set to 120 / 60 gave me about 90% coverage.

**Elvandil** · 26-Jul-2007, 10:30 PM **#11**

You might try Power Cmd. It's a very nice program that allows multiple, tabbed command windows, true copy and paste, logging of sessions, and much more (besides full screen, as illustrated in Vista).

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Sarono · 07-Aug-2007, 10:50 AM **#12**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elvandil

You might try Power Cmd. It's a very nice program that allows multiple, tabbed command windows, true copy and paste, logging of sessions, and much more (besides full screen, as illustrated in Vista).

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Where do I download that program?

Courtneyc · 07-Aug-2007, 11:43 AM **#13**

Google: it's amazing....

http://www.powercmd.com/

nathane · 07-Aug-2007, 12:32 PM **#14**

I think Sarono would like to know where he can download the program and not pay for it.... Just a thought?

jacob_lucky4 said: You would run dos from cmd??

Umm wouldn't you boot to dos? Dos isn't a program is it. I thought it was an OS?

StumpedTechy · 07-Aug-2007, 12:41 PM **#15**

Another thought is virtual machine.... this is 100% free and will run dos which you can then turn full screen.

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