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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Win-os2 full screen -- does it share resources???
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.151312.23509@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 15:13:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep5.144206.18143@ugle.unit.no> hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep2.170717.17941@nmt.edu>, jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds) writes:
- > > I've got a question about win-os2 full screen. On my computer at work, I've
- > > just got a VGA card, so I can run windoze apps through seemless windows.
- > > It appeared to me that once OS/2 loaded it's seemless session of win-os2,
- > > that when other windoze apps were started seemlessly, the win-os2 code was
- > > used again (2 seconds to load an additional app vs. loading dos and win-os2
- > > again, then loading the app).
- > >
- > > On my computer at home, I've got an ATI ultra and I configured win-os2 to
- > > a higher res, forcing me to run all windoze apps in full screen mode. My
- > > question is this: Is there any way to make OS/2 re-use its win-os2/fullscreen
- > > resources as described above in the seemless case? Every windoze app that I
- > > open runs dos, then win-os2/fullscreen, then the app. That seems like a waste
- > > of memory, disk thrashing and time.
- >
- >For each windows program, there is a setting specifying wether it will
- >run in a separate windows session or not.
-
- This setting only affects seamless Windows apps. The check box is
- grayed if the app is running in full-screen Windows mode.
-
- >If changing this setting don't help, then try to start your additional
- >windows apps from the win-os/2 desktop, don't start them from PM.
-
- I always do this. I have no Windows migrated to the desktop. They're
- all installed in the WIN-OS2 Program Manager, and I launch them from
- there. For testing them, I launch from the Windows 3.0 File Manager
- (imported from my Windows 3.0 installation)
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