DOS Windows only Half Screen in Windows XP

Posted By Chris Stinson in Windows on January 10, 2008

With Windows XP many DOS programs only display in the top half of the screen when run in full screen mode. Follow the steps below to have the DOS window display properly.

1. When in the DOS program full screen, press ALT-ENTER.
2. Right-Click on the title bar of the DOS window and select properties.
3. Click the layout tab and change the height of the screen buffer and window size to 25.
4. Click the screen tab and select Full Screen and click OK.
5. A dialog box will pop-up and ask to “save properties for future windows with same title” select this and click OK.
6. Enjoy!

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12 Responses to “DOS Windows only Half Screen in Windows XP”

1. 

   Lee Van Burkleo

   January 16, 2008 at 5:16 pm

   Thanks for sharing this fix which worked great. This had been driving me crazy.

   Reply
2. 

   Fred

   March 16, 2008 at 7:48 pm

   Thanks. This works well for old dos applications that have a fixed width or height.

   Reply
3. 

   Dennis Vessels

   September 30, 2008 at 11:43 am

   Yes, this got me out of a(nother) hole. I am most grateful.

   Reply
4. 

   Harry Samuel

   October 22, 2008 at 12:09 am

   I can not tell you how much I have been searching for the answer to this. Thanks

   Reply
5. 

   Mike

   January 7, 2009 at 2:22 am

   Thank you, I’ve been searching this answer for a while.

   Reply
6. 

   Tibor Kispal

   May 18, 2009 at 1:33 am

   Played around with settings for 1 1/2 hrs w/o result, then found this post in 2 mins. Thanx a lot!:-))))

   Reply
7. 

   Gary

   May 20, 2009 at 8:56 am

   Thank you, In order to use a new HP printer, I had to upgrade to Windows XP.
   That meant transferring a lot of data and a dos property management program
   that would only run small screen until your help – Thanks again.

   Reply
8. 

   deliveri

   June 9, 2009 at 7:27 am

   It works for me too, on Windows XP SP3
   Thanks a lot.

   Reply
9. 

   okee

   September 25, 2009 at 4:04 am

   Thanks, had trouble with this on a customers old dos application on XP.

   Reply
10. 

    icday

    August 7, 2010 at 11:47 pm

    Thank you!! fast and easy, yeah ))

    Any ideas on how to network an old DOS program. I believe that it is already written into the software but needs a code to be activated??

    Reply
11. 

    Jovan

    September 27, 2010 at 5:55 pm

    Thank you, you solve very big problem for me

    Reply
12. 

    Jose

    December 12, 2011 at 8:33 am

    me too! got it working finally! 5 Stars 2 U.

    Reply