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Colonel Sanders
04-26-2002, 09:49 PM
Today I was at one fo the school PCs with nothing to do, so I decided to enhance my mine sweeping abilities. However, wehn I opened minesweep, it was stuck on the beginer level, and there the file and help options were off the screen, someone had somehow moved it up to where the menus were no longer accesible. This wouldn't be a prob if I could move the minesweepr window, but I didn't see anyway to move it. Any ideas?

The 'ol hunk-o-junk in question is a Gateay "profesional" with on-board video, a Celeron, and an amazing 64MB RAM, running Win98 SE(hey, this thing has a better OS than my Win908FE).

Logan

RJ
04-26-2002, 09:51 PM
Can you switch to a higher resolution, then move the minesweeper window to another position and switch the resolution back ?

RJ

Colonel Sanders
04-26-2002, 11:58 PM
Unfortunatley, there are no video drivers installed except for the cr**y windows drivers. However there are 3 other PCs with drivers, and the same hardware so I might try to use a floppy and copy the drivers from them, by using the "driver file details"(in the device manager) to find the name and location of the needed files. Probbably risky, probbably stupid, but I doubt the teacher will care(or even notice :D). I remember the last time I played minesweeper, the window would slowly move up one pixel at a time whenever a menu was accesed, but now the menu has ben accesed too many times and the skill level is unchangeable :( .

Logan

goodcanuck
04-27-2002, 02:17 AM
perhaps you could sneak a WIN98 disk in and reload the "games" through add/remove progs>windows setup>accessories>games.

HTH

Colonel Sanders
04-27-2002, 11:38 AM
Or just bring in a floppy and re-load the games from one of the other PCs?

I guess it's use a floppy and hope those drivers are not too big.

Logan