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Hello all.

I've been programming Q/Quickbasic for many years now. I started on my first computer, nearly 10 years ago. I wanted to get into some QB programming (for kicks) so I looked for my old Quickbasic 7.1 program and put it on my current machine that's running Windows 2000.

But I've been having these odd quirks with it. First of all, at startup, it says some annoying Microsoft message about how it's copyright (which is obvious) and I need to press a key to continue. I don't recall that there on my old computer (with same program) but I could be wrong. And in windowed mode, the mouse doesn't work. And finally, when I hit Open or Save and the dialog box opens, it first scans both my disk drives (yes I have a 1.44 and a 1.2 on this machine!) before opening the window, and I know it didn't do that on my old computer.

I've heard there is a patch to fix the floppy disk problem and I doubt the mouse will work without full screen, but where is that patch and can I get rid of the startup message? Thanks for any help.

Why do you post twice while your question has already been answered?

http://s91125643.onlinehome.us/forum/vie...6161807793

Dunno about the mouse problem, but this will fix the startup message and floppy problems.

Thanks guys, it now works nicely. 8)

Neo, I first posted there (since it was the first board I found), but with the advice of the other member who posted I came here only to find out I registered here years ago but never posted.

Thanks again for the help. 8)

The problem I have with the mouse is that, when the program is in Windows mode, the mouse doesn't work, but in full screen it's fine. This is just a minor issue, and I've heard there's no fix for it.