Windows 10 / Wordperfect X4

Kari said:

No. It only means, that Windows 7 virtual machines can't use so called Enhanced Mode in Windows 10 host, so they can only use 4:3 aspect ratio display (no widescreen option), and copy / paste between the host and guest (VM) does not work.

Kari

Well, that kind of rules out the VM...for me at least. Guess I'll have to upgrade to Windows 10 (as opposed to a fresh install) and hope for the best.

Well, I did the upgrade and so far everything seems to work except on of my macros hangs and freezes WP. I haven't explored all the implications of that as yet (got it to work once) but ctrl-alt -del allows me to close WP and allow me to start over. Might be a work-around as simple as closing the document before closing WP. Will try to update as more info becomes available and...as always, with your forbearance, I am sure I will have questions.

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Another question:

So over the weekend I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (upgraded as opposed to a fresh install). I have had Wordperfect X4 on Win 7 for some years and I am comfortable with it and have macros, etc., that i want to retain.

So WP seems to work fine, considering the limited testing I've done. But when I open WP I get an annoying "User Account Control" window that asks if I want to allow this app to make changes to my device/computer. If I say 'yes" everything seems to proceed noramlly but, of course if I say "no' Wordperfect doesn't load.

I suspect this message is coming from Windows 10, as nothing else will open or work until I answer yes or no. But I am new to Windows 10 and this message does not appear when I open other Corel products.

Any help would be appreciated.

Caledon Ken said:

One of Brink's excellent tutorial on UAC.

Enable or Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows

A Microsoft discussion

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...-control-works


You will notice a number of related tutorials at the end of Brink's tutorial.

Is there, by chance, any way to disable or manage user account setting for one particular app? That's really what I'd like--it would solve this problem without breaking the security of the system.

Caledon Ken said:

Think this what you are looking for, maybe.

Create Elevated Shortcut without UAC prompt in Windows 10

I gave that tutorial a quick look (thanks...will study it later) but just that fast glance confused me a bit---will this allow me to start WP without the User Account Control message just from Word Perfect alone? Bypassing the message just for that one app?