I'm working with WordStar since 1986. Now I'm using version 5.5. There were no problems under Windows 3.0 to 98.
Now I use Windows XP (Home edition) and Windows 2000 Proffesional). Ther is no problem to use WordStar under Windows XP, but under Windows 2000 (SP 4 or 5 I do not know exactly) there if following problem:
If I set dos-properties - options - screen options - to "window" I cann use WordStar as usual.
by seting dos-properties - option - screen option - to "full screen" - WordStar load the file but I cann nothing do because
the keyboard ist "dead".
If I begin to work in "window" mode, I can work but by changing to "full screen" (alt-enter) - I cann do nothing.
What cann I do ?, is it keyboard problem, is ist video driver problem ? is it problem of allocation of memory ?
thanks Ivan
Hi,
I've not heard of this problem before, but my guess would be video driver. You could try starting Windows in safe mode to get a basic VGA driver loaded and see if that makes any difference.
Hi
This sounds a bit like a problem I once had with my Windows 3.1 machine.
I had no mouse in fullscreen MSDOS mode.
The problem was that the DOS mouse driver was not loading in config.sys or autoexec.bat but the Windows mouse driver *was* loading at Windows startup.
I don't have either NT or Win2000 so I don't know if they need to load 2 different mouse drivers.
odd to me too.
I use WS6 under several versions of win2000pro.
But then I never use fullscreen. I use the biggest window possible, have bever used fullscreen on any machine--except by mistake.