Vista - Vista widow sizes

Ok here is my question and frustration as I am one step from removing Vista.
I do online gaming speciffically Everquest. When I come out of the game to
look at something the widow is extremely small. It use to be like minimized
until i ran aero one time to see what it looked like. I have a 22"
widescreen monitor by Gateway and my graphics are set to 1280 X 1160. How do
I resize this window so I can run multiple windows at same timie? The aero
portion is too small to continue to game etc. In XP and Vista at first when
windows filled screen now about 1/4. Please help.

Also Vista hates EQ as it has to give opver control. To get the game to run
I have to run as administrator or noting happens. I right clicked it and set
admin rights in properties but still have to righ t clickit to get to and set
to run. I thought settign it in the properties all I would have to do is
click the icon> any ideas?

"Khanjohn" <Khanjohn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Ok here is my question and frustration as I am one step from removing
> Vista.
> I do online gaming speciffically Everquest. When I come out of the game to
> look at something the widow is extremely small. It use to be like
> minimized
> until i ran aero one time to see what it looked like. I have a 22"
> widescreen monitor by Gateway and my graphics are set to 1280 X 1160. How
> do
> I resize this window so I can run multiple windows at same timie?

No idea, I haven't played EQ1 in ages, but I'm thinking of loading it up
again. Isn't there a third party application called EQWindowed or something
that runs multiple EQs in a window and lets you specify stuff like how many
frames of animation are rendered, and window sizes, etc?

Might do a search online, see if anything comes up.

> Also Vista hates EQ as it has to give opver control. To get the game to
> run
> I have to run as administrator or noting happens. I right clicked it and
> set
> admin rights in properties but still have to righ t clickit to get to and
> set
> to run. I thought settign it in the properties all I would have to do is
> click the icon> any ideas?

Yes, install Windows XP (Dual boot). EverQuest wasn't really designed with
security in mind, every file change and update is placed right into the
EverQuest folder instead of going into the appdata folder in c:\users. Vista
doesn't like that, newer MMOs only patch to the program files folder,
everything else gets saved in the users appdata folder so the only program
that needs admin privlidges is the patcher.

If you want to get rid of the run as administrator requirement you can dump
the EverQuest folder somewhere under C:\users\(username)\ and run the game
from there

Not guaranteeing it'll work, but it might help. If I have time tonight and I
can find my EQ install discs I'll try to install the game and login to my
ancient account. If I come up with anything else, i'll let you know.

-Andy