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Control CI installed Borland Delphi 3 Professional, a 32-bit Windows

Development Environment, on my Acer Aspire computer with Windows Vista Home

Premium operating system. I set compatibility to WIN98 and 256 color mode,

but each time I start the application my display resets down to low

resolution 8-bit color mode. When I exit the application, the display

reverts back to high resolution 32-bit mode. I can go into Control Panel and

Adjust Screen Resolution back up to high 32-bit while the application is

running, and then everything looks fine, but the application goes back to low

resolution 8-bit mode every time it is started. Can someone please help me

solve this perplexing problem? Thank you for any assistance and suggestions.


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Contact Borland for an update. App compat mode is there to shim

applications to give them some ability to work (which yours does), but its

not meant as a workaround for software that needs updated.



Joseph W. Conway, MCSE

Windows Server Group



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Actually, I solved this problem already by removing the 256 color checkmark

from the compatibilty window. Thanks for the try, but Borland doesn't give

much of any assistance to owners of older software. They want you to buy the

latest version of DELPHI for about $900, of course. For other people who are

having problems with Borland software, or any other software that utilizes

the Borland Database Engine (BDE) on a Vista equiped computer, please see the

fix for this at the following address:

forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx >forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx



""Joseph Conway [MSFT]"" wrote:

Thanks for information.



I knew they might not have support for it but I personally dont use Borland

so I wasnt sure. Glad you got it worked out.



Joseph W. Conway, MCSE

Windows Server Group



This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



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Rickoff, on the subject of Borland software, Delphi in partular, you

wouldn't happen to know of any freeware database components for Delphi

that will allow the creation of database programs that do not use BDE

and does not require runtime support DLLs?



Perhaps something that uses XML?





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