[pchelpers] Re: White screen in dos
- From: Scott McNay <Wizard@xxxxxxxx>
- To: GCox <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:03:49 -0500
Hi George,
Wednesday, July 16, 2003, 12:30:26 AM, you wrote:
G> I right clicked the msdos prompt icon and tinkered in the program>advanced
G> area and accidentally came upon a way to get restarted in dos mode with the
G> regular black screen with white writing when I click on the msdos prompt
G> icon but this way I am unable to start a dos session in a window in
G> windows.Also, though I can work around the problem this way, this doesn't
G> actually fix the white screen problem. Start>shutdown>restart in dos mode
G> still produces the white screen..Using ansi.sys to try and change the color
G> of the white screen doesn't work.The only fix I can think of would be to
G> re-install windows but this is not enough of an annoyance to go through all
G> of that.
The ANSI.SYS thing was just something to check to see if you had it in
there.
Did you try using F8 to step through to see when the color changes?
You can have multiple icons; just copy the one that you have already,
and change one of them.
--Scott.
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