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G1ll
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Submitted by G1ll on August 15, 2007 - 7:26am.

Hey,

Not sure this is in the right forum but i'm playing a game and it goes onto full screen mode, I was wondering if theres a way to make these games play but still leave it possible to reduce it and talk on msn without having to exit?

 

Hope thats clear!

Thanks 

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Re: Reducing games to use other applications help
November 10, 2007 - 10:30am

G wrote:

Hey,

Not sure this is in the right forum but i'm playing a game and it goes onto full screen mode, I was wondering if theres a way to make these games play but still leave it possible to reduce it and talk on msn without having to exit?

 

Hope thats clear!

Thanks 

 You can always run the game through a Virtual Machine Application.

 Dosbox would be used for DOS games, though I can't remember the name of the virtual Machine that lets you load any system into a adjustable window (including MAC OS, Linux OS, Win 95,etc)

 VMware?



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Re: Reducing games to use other applications help
August 20, 2007 - 2:50pm

You could always check the options of the game. Most games do have that option also. I use the button on my keyboard that is a picture of the windows logo.

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Re: Reducing games to use other applications help
August 15, 2007 - 7:46am

I don't know about reducing it to a window, some full screen games don't give you that option.  When I'm playing Morrowwind, I use "alt+tab" to bounce between it and any messenger programs I'm using, since windowed either isn't an option, or I just haven't found it yet.

 

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