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If your display is a 800x600 then all dos s/w will use only 640x480 of the pixels. Unlike a CRT display that use a scanning gun, a LCD has 800 pixles across & 600 pixels down. Dos can only sctivate 640x480 of them. There should be a option for screen expansion in the TP features under display that may provide you with expantion You might want to think of it as a feature of Microsoft, they are the one who wrote DOS. On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:32:06 -0400, P. van Schijndel wrote: >I have a 365XD. When I run a MS-DOS application, it runs in a partial >screen mode (see below), even if I set the property to full screen. The >image is there, just shrunk to a window size, with a black border all >around it in full screen mode. > >Anybody know why? Anybody have a solution. > >Here is an excerpt from a post I sent to >microsoft.public.win95.msdosapps, and a response. Do you agree with the >response? > >----forward---- > >This sounds like a problem (feature?) of the Thinkpad computer. Due to >the >nature of the LCD displays in notebooks, some DOS programs that require >unusual resolutions cannot utilize the full LCD screen. > >Adam > >P. van Schijndel <pvanschi@sprynet.com> wrote in article ><3353F066.3849@sprynet.com>... >> I have a IBM Thinkpad 365XD running Win95. >> >> When I run DOS apps in full screen mode (that is, not windowed), the >> image does not fill the entire screen. It fills the centre half (like a >> doughnut, where the image is the "doughnut" hole. >> >> Even after setting the properties of the application -- not a shortcut >> -- to full screen, this effect still occurs. >> >> Has anyone else had this problem? >> jeffsnc@mindspring.com I'm not paranoid, I know they are following me. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Unsolicited advertising sent to this E-Mail address is expressly prohibited under USC Title 47, Section 227. Violators are subject to charge of up to $1,500 per incident or treble actual costs, whichever is greater. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -