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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / March 2008VPC 7.0.3 is EXTREMELY slow on OS X 10.4.11
WHAT HAPPENED? I'd been using VPC 7 and XP Pro with OS X 10.4.11 (because I need to run Quickbooks Pro Windows version for progressive invoicing) without a problem. It was a little slow, but it's what was to be expected. A couple months ago, I had to reinitialize my main hard drive and reinstall the OS and all my apps. After that, VPC was almost fast. It was a pleasure to use. Lately it has slowed to less than a crawl. It takes approximately 40 minutes to boot after I log in. It takes about 5 minutes to acknowledge a mouse click, so double-clicking doesn't work. I tried opening the control panel so I could change all the visuals (desktop picture, font smoothing, screensaver, etc.) back to the defaults to try and save some processor power, but I have to wait almost an hour after I make a selection to be able to apply it. I haven't even tried to open Quickbooks lately. After much frustration, I found something called XPLite, which supposedly allows you to turn off many system functions so that the system runs cleaner, but after spending almost 2 days making selections to turn off, it has been running overnight (almost 16 hours now) and is still "Completing configuration of Mouse Cursors." Is this something that reinstalling VCP will fix? I've read that Windows XP Pro is a dog to run in VCP 7, but it's all I have (it came with VCP 7). And it ran well for three years until recently. I can't remember doing anything to either system (except the necessary OS X updates after the reinstall) between the time I reinstalled and the time it started craweling. Any suggestions? Lloyd Sounds like something in the Windows side is messed up. Could be a virus or spyware as those are the classic symptoms of malware. A fresh install of Windows should clear it up. I run XP Pro in VPC and it runs OK but not speedy. Windows 98 runs far faster but some of the software I need to run requires XP so that is where most of my Windows work is done under. On 3/4/08 11:53 AM, in article ee8faa5.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > WHAT HAPPENED? > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Lloyd > Sounds like something in the Windows side is messed up. Could be a virus or > spyware as those are the classic symptoms of malware. A fresh install of > Windows should clear it up. <snip> Or you were silly enough to install Norton Anti-virus software - that's notoriously bad for slowing Windows computers down over time (as well as being a bit of a scam with the annual fee). Stay well away from it and use something like AVG Free instead. Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) I use AVG in my Windows virtual machines. I second HH's recommendation. >> Sounds like something in the Windows side is messed up. Could be a virus >> or [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Helpful Harry > Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) I do not run any Antivirus in my Virtual Windows machines. I don't really surf the Web with them. I use them to VPN into sites. Granted I still run some risk but it's pretty low. To me the virus is normally the Antivirus software eating up CPU cycles is the crime and the annual extortion fees really rub me wrong too. On 3/5/08 2:53 PM, in article 060320080853275306%helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com, "Helpful Harry" <helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com> wrote: >> Sounds like something in the Windows side is messed up. Could be a virus or >> spyware as those are the classic symptoms of malware. A fresh install of [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Helpful Harry > Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) > I do not run any Antivirus in my Virtual Windows machines. I don't really > surf the Web with them. I use them to VPN into sites. Granted I still run > some risk but it's pretty low. To me the virus is normally the Antivirus > software eating up CPU cycles is the crime and the annual extortion fees > really rub me wrong too. That's why you never use Norton and instead use something better and free (for personal use) like AVG. I do have Norton Antivirus installed on my Mac under Mac OS 9.2 and the updates are free, so I point-blank refuse to pay for them under Windows - it's simply a scam due to the larger number of users. Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) On most of my machines I also use AVG. For more at risk machines I use an older version of Norton that you can easily reset the 1 year clock once a year so in effect not pay annual extortion fees. Newer version of Norton may do a better job but eat way too much CPU up even on newer faster machines you still feel the pain. On 3/6/08 12:27 AM, in article 060320081827407417%helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com, "Helpful Harry" <helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com> wrote: >> I do not run any Antivirus in my Virtual Windows machines. I don't really >> surf the Web with them. I use them to VPN into sites. Granted I still run [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Helpful Harry > Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) > I do have Norton Antivirus installed on my Mac under Mac OS 9.2 and the > updates are free, so I point-blank refuse to pay for them under Windows > - it's simply a scam due to the larger number of users. Those NAV updates for your Mac are to protect Windows users. NAV is "using you", wasting your Mac CPU for no useful Mac purpose. |
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