how do i not use full screen so i can see the task bar at the bottom?

i tried to do it in preferences but it says something along the lines of my laptops settings not being appropriate to perform it.

any ideas?

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Lol, nogravy surely it would have been even more help to just give him the code.

"C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2008\fm.exe" -windowed -small_screen

Right click on your FM shortcut and replace the destination with that code and it should appear as windowed from now on.

Originally posted by Nomis07:

Lol, nogravy surely it would have been even more help to just give him the code.

"C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2008\fm.exe" -windowed -small_screen

Right click on your FM shortcut and replace the destination with that code and it should appear as windowed from now on.

What about the screen resolution?

Originally posted by Daniel Foster:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Nomis07:

Lol, nogravy surely it would have been even more help to just give him the code.

"C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2008\fm.exe" -windowed -small_screen

Right click on your FM shortcut and replace the destination with that code and it should appear as windowed from now on.

What about the screen resolution? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well in window mode you can make it what you want by just resizing the window.

You can change the fullscreen resolution using parameters as per below for example

-fullscreen_height=800 -fullscreen_width=1280

I mean to use windowed mode your computer has to have a specific screen resolution or it does not work.

None of the screen resolutions on my laptop work (i always get the error)

try setting your taskbar to auto-hide, that worked for me.

Originally posted by Daniel Foster:

I mean to use windowed mode your computer has to have a specific screen resolution or it does not work.

None of the screen resolutions on my laptop work (i always get the error)

Do what Nomis07 said, although for wwsm it's:

"C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Worldwide Soccer Manager 2008\wsm.exe" -small_screen -windowed

and then it will ignore the resolution requirements. Although it does look a lot better on mine with the taskbar on autohide.