Changing display resolution

[Jinx999]

I recently bought a netbook with a 1024  x 600 widescreen display.
I own a number of old games that have 800 x 600 resolution modes that are old enough and have low enough requirements to run on the netbook.
Does anyone know of a way to change the resolution of a screen so that I'll have black bars on either side of the screen, instead of having it stretched out and ugly?

[ECSNorway]

Are these DOS games, or are they automatically just fullscreen?

You could try tweaking the settings (possibly in the startup shortcut) to have them run windowed instead of fullscreen.
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[Jinx999]

Automatically fullscreen.
The Operating system is XP and the games in question are Arcanum (which can be tweaked to work well under the resolution), Dungeon Keeper 2 and Diablo 2 (which end up stretched out) and Freelancer (which is currently a bit of a kludged widescreen mode)

[Sofaspud]

Diablo 2 can run in a window.  After installation, modify your shortcut to add a " -w" on the end of the executable.
Freelancer... I'd have to dig out and re-install my copy of it to figure it out, but I know it can be done.  I just don't remember how I did it.  Google will help (that's how I figured it out, I'm sure.)
Dungeon Keeper 2 I'm not sure about.  I had crash issues with it and never played with it enough to get it running at all, much less in a window.

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