AAAAAARgh! Sudden Trouble with VPC 7.0.2 and WinXP driving me nuts.

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Mark - 31 May 2006 02:42 GMT

I've been using VPC 7.0.2 on a iMac G5 running OSX 10.4.5 for about
a years with no problems...until today. I installed VPC just so I could
continue to use Quicken Premier 2005 for Windows, which I find much
more powerful than the crippled Apple version. (I'm running WinXP Pro
w/i VPC, FYI.)
Recently, I've noticed that VPC was getting kinda of slow: if I
switched between Safari, for example, and VPC, sometimes it would
immediately recognize the fact that I was clicking on the virtual
Windows screen for a while. Today, everything just collapsed. I can
still call up VPC, but when I clicked on Quicken on the desktop,
nothing happened. Thinking maybe the Quicken file has gotten corrupted
somehow, I tried to uninstall it within VPC, but I keep getting error
messages. Ditto for when I try to install a fresh version of Quicken.

I've tried installing a fresh version of VPC, but that does't seem to
do any good (and I'm not entirely sure it's a fresh version, either,
cuz it didn't ask for the product key either). Also tried to install a
fresh version of WinXP Pro, but for some reason, it's not loading
either; I just get a msg that it can't find the OS.

So, now entirely frustrated, I'm thinking I should just start over from
scratch: Reinstall VPC, reinstall WinXP, reinstall Quicken. Anybody
know the best way to do this?

Please help before I lose the rest of my hair. tks. Mark

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Michael Vilain - 31 May 2006 05:42 GMT

> I've been using VPC 7.0.2 on a iMac G5 running OSX 10.4.5 for about
> a years with no problems...until today. I installed VPC just so I could
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> Please help before I lose the rest of my hair. tks. Mark

Just a SWAG, but this sounds like hardware. Do you have diagnostics
that can do a major test of hardware like Apple's Hardware disk or
TechTool Pro 4? I've heard that bad memory SIMM can really screw up a
system, making it succumb to bit rot as corrupted stuff gets written
back to disk. VPC will most likely make a system utilize all available
physical memory and then some.

The key thing that's making me say this is the "It used to work but
stopped all of a sudden and I haven't changed anything". I hope you
have good backups.

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AAAAAARgh! Sudden Trouble with VPC 7.0.2 and WinXP driving me nuts.