Shoutbox

Is there any program that lets you take a full screen program and make it in a window. "Mario Forever" changes resolution and makes itself full screen, I want to know if i can prevent this. there is no option in the game to do so.

umm, use a virtual box?
If it's console, use dos-box http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
For windows, you can try http://bochs.sourceforge.net, but it's not worth the hassle of setting up a virtual OS to play a game on, or the degration in speed and clarity

I use a program called Actual Window Manager that allows me to manipulate the way windows are opened and how they act etc. I'm not 100% that this will help with your full screen program but I'd definately recommend giving it a try.

http://www.actualtools.com/windowmanager/

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Originally posted by joe cool
Is there any program that lets you take a full screen program and make it in a window. "Mario Forever" changes resolution and makes itself full screen, I want to know if i can prevent this. there is no option in the game to do so.

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erm... if you have desktop icon i think you can change it, go to the desktop, right click on the icon, select properties, then under shortcut there is a target box. At the end of the stuff in the box i think there is a thing that says

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+menu 1 +fullscreen 1

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you can simply change this to

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+menu 1 +fullscreen 0

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im not too sure if this will work with your program but it works with battlefield 2

Have you tried

Alt+Enter

withing the game ?

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Originally posted by TazDevil
Have you tried

Alt+Enter

withing the game ?

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whats it do? it doesn't do anything for me... (not playing a game and too lazy to start one)

i jus press the flaggy windows button thats next to ctrl and alt to goto windows

If you press Alt+Enter from within a game, then it will change from fullscreen to windowed mode. Not all games, but you could give it a try with Mario Forever.

I meant to say that i tried that, sorry. I've read that it may work, but no luck for me.

have you tried the thing wtih the icon code i posted earlier, that works for me

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Originally posted by Methos2
have you tried the thing wtih the icon code i posted earlier, that works for me

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Doesn't work with Mario Forever or another game I play..

I tried Actual Window Manager with Mario Forever, I get icons in the top right when in full screen but you can't click them.. And I get nothing for the other game..

I wish there was a program that was like firefox, with tabs, and instead of typing in websites you type in .exe's and you can open different games in each tab