Run Turbo C in full screen on Windows 7 / Vista

So most of you having problem in running turbo C in full screen mode on your system having Windows 7 or Vista install on it . . 


You may get error like "The system does not support full screen mode. Choose close to terminate the application"

So here is the solution for that . . Basically you can do it by three different tricks ;)

Trick 1

Disable your Graphics Adapter 

You can do it by just uninstalling your graphics drivers 

To disable your Graphics Drivers follow simple steps 

1. Right Click on My Computer >> Manage >> Device Manager >> Display Adapter 

2. Right click and say "Uninstall" 

Trick 2

Use DOSBOX Software 

Dosbox is an open source DOS emulator for BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, and Windows. This tool is primarily intended to play DOS games on windows7 but here we can use it run turbo C++ in Full screen mode.

1) Download : DOSBox
2) Install and run the DOSBox
3) Now go to command prompt. We need to mount TC folder.

              Just type “mount c: c:/tc” and press enter. 

• Assumed that Turbo C++ is installed in C drive and TC folders located at C:\TC
• You may get a message that 'Drive C is mounted as local directory C:/TC\'
• Change the directory to C/BIN/tc.exe. To do that, please follow the steps as shown in the below screen shot.

Now the Turbo C++ will open in DOSBox. Press ALT+ENTER  to toggle between full screen and mini screen.

Trick 3

Turn Windows 7 in Safe Mode 

In safe mode the application running capabilities of an operating system is low and this mode is used as trouble fixing for OS. But this method is much simpler and you only need to log on to safe mode by pressing F8 on start up.

1) Install turbo C++
2) Start windows7 in safe mode.
3) Execute turbo C++

I hope this will solve your problem !! 

Thanks :)