A quick way to exit Virtual PC 2004

A quick way to exit Virtual PC 2004

Ben Armstrong [MSFT]

24 Mar 2005 11:08 PM

Comments 8

A little known feature of Virtual PC is that if you have a couple of virtual machines open and want to quickly exit Virtual PC all together - you can hold down the control key and click the 'X' on the Virtual PC Console. This will automatically save state all running virtual machines and exit Virtual PC - without prompting you at all.

Cheers,
Ben

Virtual PC / Server Tips 'n' Tricks

Leave a Comment

Name
Comment
Please add 5 and 4 and type the answer here:
Post

Comments

SSX

25 Mar 2005 9:35 AM

Very Cool!
Dave Donaldson

25 Mar 2005 10:03 AM

That's pretty cool. Thanks for the tip.
Jason Reis

25 Mar 2005 3:17 PM

Great tip. Thanks for sharing that!
VPC User

25 Mar 2005 3:24 PM

That's odd...my computer freezes for about 10 seconds before anything can happen (no BSOD). It still asked me to "save state" on each Virtual Machine! It's no different from just clicking the 'X' without the CTRL key.

Any ideas?? :0{
Virtual PC Guy

28 Mar 2005 12:00 PM

Hi VPC User,

I don't know why VPC is freezing when you hit the 'X' - but I suspect that the reason why you are still getting prompted is because you are letting go of the CTRL key before VPC 'un-freezes'.

Cheers,
Ben
VPC User

28 Mar 2005 6:29 PM

Ben,

It still didn't work! No need to worry...Virtual PC 2004 is still awesome without it! ;0)
Austen Frazier

29 Mar 2005 3:21 PM

Ho hum.. neat trick!
DavidC

16 Apr 2005 5:48 PM

I guess the Mac heritage of VPC still shows sometimes ;-)
(Option-click on the close button of a window is an old Mac trick to close all the windows of an app)