Windows 98: "Run program in 256 Color Mode"
 

In Windows XP you can right click on an application shortcut and tick a "run program in 256 color mode" box. This is very useful if you run a lot of software which is a few years old.
I am currently setting up a few Win 98 machines, and would like a similar feature. Basically, I don't want to have to have the users of these machines (who wouldn't be very tech savy) to be constantly changing system settings just to run software. Is there a way I can set Windows 98 to automatically switch to 256 colors when a particular application is launched, and then change it back to 32-bit when the application is closed?
Thanks.

Ok well I managed to sort it out myself. For anybody curious, here is what I did.

I downloaded a nifty little tool called NirCmd which is a command line tool which lets you do lots of useful things to your windows settings. For each 256 color mode program I created a batch file which used NirCmd to switch the color depth down to 256, calls the applications exe, and then switches the color depth back up.

This NirCmd seems like a very cool, useful program. Might be worth checking out.

Could you post the source for the batchfile? :)

@echo off
nircmd setdisplay 800 600 8
cd "C:\The Working Directory\"
"C:\Path To The Program.exe"
nircmd setdisplay 800 600 24

nice work man :)

Thank you CSflim for the followup.
Very small and flexable utility. Appearently free to use!