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I have a few games that don't offer window mode in the options.

Is there any way to force the games to play in window mode instead of fullscreen?

Going to .exe's properties checking the compability doesn't help either.

Any ideas on what I can do to fix this?

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I forgot to mention I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x86 – Chris0089 Aug 3 '11 at 22:05
I found this program: 3d analyze. It forced CivRome into window mode (which was impossible wich dxwnd). however this window couldnt be placed to another position. Then I found another nice software: Windows Sniper - it's a shareware, it allows to change the window position and even its size. – zeedo May 1 at 7:21
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Only thing I can think of is running the games in a Virtual Machine. The VM can be windowed and therefore full screens games inside the VM will appear windowed on your host PC.

You will however probably take a performance hit, especially if it is newer games you're looking at.

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You should check in the program folders for the settings.ini files or similar. I often find a line in the that says fullscreen = 1.

Just change that to a 0 and you should be in windowed mode.

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I did happen to find it's config file, this is what I found. pastebin.com/eXFANXKx Any ideas on what I should change to force my game into window mode? – Chris0089 Aug 4 '11 at 0:13
change this globalwindowed=0 to globalwindowed=1 just means set it to true – Seth Hikari Aug 4 '11 at 0:41
I figured that out... but the window is too tall/big for my laptop screen. Is there any possible way to resize the window and make it smaller? I can't seem to figure out that config file to resize and make the game window smaller. :( – Chris0089 Aug 5 '11 at 4:14
in game set the resolution to less then 1200 x what ever should do it – Seth Hikari Aug 8 '11 at 0:35
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