if the boot configuration was for a different motherboard, it probably won't work ever. you need to pull your main drive, and install the alternate system to the usb drive via the target motherboard. the installation process always reads the motherboard and chooses drivers on the basis of that …

for the resolution you probably need to go into windows accessories to change the native res after boot. I had to to get exile iii to display the way I wanted. that era of display modes didn't adapt like modern ones.

there is another method that may appeal to some. the issue only arises when the user attempts to start a game when there is not an active internet connection. there is no failure point in game explorer's attempts to reach its "update site". what I did was to go into the registry and search for " …

killing explorer doesn't work.

I just realized that it might be a conflict with windows display conventions such as with old blizzard games. does killing explorer and starting a game using a batch script work better?

on many machines (all windows 7) I have noticed that dosbox doesn't like to return from a locked screen. it stutters (sound and graphics) for several minutes. sometimes it recovers, sometimes not. I tried changing the cpu priority of dosbox and the io priority without success. I changed the output …

all of these seem a lot of trouble to me. all I do is go to the sendto folder in my user profile. c:\users\(logonname)\appdata\roaming\microsoft\windows\sendto\ once there, I right click on an open spot and click new>shortcut. follow the prompts to put a shortcut to your dosbox.exe in that folder. …