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- VidRes V1.1
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- What is VidRes?
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- VidRes is an easy to use Windows utility that enables you to quickly switch
- the display resolution of your machine without making the change permanent.
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- Installation
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- VidRes is supplied as a compressed file archive. Copy the compressed file to
- an empty floppy disk or new sub-directory on your hard disk & extract the
- files. Copy VidRes.exe to a suitable sub-directory and create a shortcut to it
- on your desktop.
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- Requirements
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- Windows 95, or Windows NT 3.51, and MFC30.DLL for run-time support.
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- Use
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- The default operation of VidRes (invoked without any command line parameters)
- displays a simple dialog box containing a list of all the possible display
- resolutions. VidRes prefaces each item with a display mode number that you can
- use directly with VidRes by passing the mode number as a command line
- parameter. Items with a marker '╢', indicate that Windows can switch directly
- to that mode without having to restart your machine. It's these marked modes
- that you are likely to want to use. If you choose to use an unmarked mode,
- VidRes prompts you that it needs to make the change permanent and will ask you
- to restart your machine.
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- Use VidRes interactively to find the mode numbers you want to use. Then,
- create desktop shortcuts with the mode number as a command line parameter so
- that you can easily switch between the modes you use.
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- For example I have 2 items:
- "E:\vidres\vidres.exe 2" that switches my display to standard VGA mode, and
- "E:\vidres\vidres.exe 4" that switched to 1024x768 resolution.
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- The actual mode numbers depend on the type of your video card.
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- Notes
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- This version of VidRes runs under Windows NT 3.51, but is limited to showing
- the possible display modes; it is unable to effect a mode change. A future
- release of Windows NT should allow VidRes to work correctly.
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- Uses For VidRes
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- To switch between high resolution modes and standard VGA resolution when
- playing Windows games that would otherwise only occupy a small area of the
- display.
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- Feedback we have had from early users has indicated that it's of use for
- developers designing Windows applications. Here it allows you to quickly check
- the visual aspects of your user interface design at different display
- resolutions.
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- Contact
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- If you have any questions, you can contact us at:
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- 100524.3072@compuserve.com.
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- Please take a look at our web site to see the services we offer and download
- our other free software utilities.
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- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jdd
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- If you need help, or have any suggestions for improvements to VidRes, then
- please contact us via Email.
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- Thanks
- JD Design
- 162 Mow Cop Road
- Mow Cop
- Stoke-on-Trent
- ST7 4NH
- England
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