Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / November 2004

I have just purchased the iMac g5 and love the hardware, but am not
impressed with the applications.  I like the stability of the X operating
software, but just cannot get used to the look etc.
Can I delete (format) the the hard drive and just install windows XP on the

Hi-  I'm having trouble getting anywhere near a full screen display on
my 23 inch monitor.  Even when I enter full display mode and change
the resolution in monitor settings of Windows 2000.  Is it not
compatible with monitors that large?  Do I need a special driver or

Am using a G5 Mac DP2.0 and 10.3.6. Have just loaded VPC7.0 with
Windows XP Pro. After opening Windows a note opens suggesting that I
load a virus detector. My DSL system works through a physical router.
Do I need a PC virus detector and spyware detector and do I need to

1. Does VPC7/xp pro run better under a single G. five processor or a
dual processor system? (while I do not plan to run very many graphics
intensive programs on either the Mac or to Windows side, I may need to
boot, and have running Adobe Acrobat in the background on either side,

I have a PowerMac, dual 2.0 G5 with 4.5 GB of memory.  After applying
the 7.0.1 update and looking at the "About Virtual PC", Memory tab,
VPC only reports back 2047 MB of "built in memory".  Additionally when
configuring a virtual PC (XP Pro), there is still a limit of 512 MB

When I Boot Windows XP Pro under VPC7 - I get a black text box which I
have to select Windows XP Pro - Or - Windows XP Pro (Setup)??   The
default is the setup - which I do not want!  How do I get rid of this
option??  Thanks in advance for the help!

I would like to move the Virtual PC List folder from the default
installation location to a second drive.  When I copied the folder and then
launch VPC7, the list did not contain the PCs I had setup.  I can use the
file open command to launch them, but I cant get them to show in the ...

Hi Again
I'm running a G5 dual processor machine with 1MB of RAM. I am aware
that some people are having problems with some programs and more than
2MB of RAM. However, will adding another 1MB speed up VPC v7 and make

Hey all!  From Windows on VPC7 on a dual 2Gig G5 - I can not make mt
HP2200 print from the optin tray (Tray 1).  It always prints from the
Cassette.  Prining from the Mac in general works just fine - if I put
paper in Tray 1 - it prints on that paper.  And in Windows - I have

Thank all who replied to the Heresy posting.  I forgot to mention that I was
also disappointed in the number of software programs available, and in the
case of Quicken and Entourage the quality when compared to the corresponding
PC versions.

I have downloaded and installed the VPC update - 7.0.1.
I am now getting a warning message when I close certain programs in
VPC.
It states:

Greetings all,
I just updated Virtual PC to 7.0.1 and now whenever I attempt to boot up
Windows XP, I get a 640x480 black rectangle of a screen. The "Disk"
light does not blink, but the "CPU" indicators are at either 3 or 4.

I have Virtual PC 7 with the Windows start menu added to my dock.
However it only displays the programs that were preinstalled with
Windows and not those I have added later.
I'm very unlikely to want to fire up Virtual PC just to run Notepad,

  Need some advice.  I installed a legally paid for downloaded game
into Virtual PC and it keeps telling me it won't run because a debug
program is running, or some such explanation. The game is by UBI Soft
entitled Polital Machine, in which I downloaded from their site and

is it possible to install xp pro (oem) on vpc 6.1?
i get as far as creating the windows xp machine, then load the cd with
xp pro, then after going through the few loads of ramdrive, tools and
others, the install process hangs with a message at the bottom that