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Shaba1

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Posted: Jan. 11 2006,00:11

I have tried DSL from a iso burned cd and it worked fine. I recently tried to run embedded version 2.0 by extracting the zip file to a folder on a usb key fob then clicking on the bat file. What I got was a CMD/DOS screen with a bunch of multilcolored unreadable letter/words on a black background. I finally just had to do a ctrl-alt-delete and shut down that window in order to get back to the xp deskop. Does anyone know how I can at least get a readable cmd/dos window so I can at least see what is going wrong?

cbagger01

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Posted: Jan. 11 2006,06:52

Change Windows Desktop settings for "16 bit color" depth

Shaba1

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Posted: Feb. 14 2006,22:57

Quote (cbagger01 @ Jan. 11 2006,01:52)

Change Windows Desktop settings for "16 bit color" depth

Thanks cbagger that worked. I tired it last month and have been avoiding asking another utter newbie question.

How I resize the "desktop"(remember I come from windows world" so that it fits on my 800X600 max laptop screen. I get most of it up but it looks like there are some items at the bottom and there are no scroll bars.

Thanks in advance.

bit801

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Posted: Feb. 21 2006,18:02

hello fellow newbie!
Once you have DSL running click on the DSLpanel icon, then Xversa. I had a similar prob and this worked for me.

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