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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:53 PM

Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

When it comes to minimizing the potential for malicious software running in a virtual machine to affect your physical computer, there are two golden rules to follow: Secure the virtual machine just like you would a physical computer.  This means
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:57 AM

Understanding (and troubleshooting) Auto-Publishing in Windows Virtual PC

One of the cool features of Windows Virtual PC is how applications that are installed into Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 virtual machines automatically appear in the start menu on the host operating system – and can be launched directly without
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Monday, October 26, 2009 9:23 AM

Deploying Windows XP Mode

We have recently published a very handy video / guide / set of scripts to help with anyone who needs to deploy either a standard or customized version of Windows XP mode to a large number of virtual machines. The first thing to look at is the deployment
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 2 Comments
Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:29 AM

Windows Virtual PC / Windows XP Mode RTM now available for general download

Go and get it: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 24 Comments
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:09 PM

Why is F12 not working with my virtual machine?!?!

Here is a problem that I hear about at least 2 or 3 times a month: Someone is trying to do a network installation of an operating system using either Hyper-V or Virtual PC, they setup the virtual machine appropriately, but when they try to press “F12”
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 3:28 PM

Disk2vhd v1.0 now available

The SysInternals team just announced the availability of a new tool: Disk2vhd . This is a tool that you run on a running Windows computer to create virtual hard disks copies of the physical disks that are attached.  Under the covers this tool works
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 24 Comments
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:34 AM

Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode now on MSDN / TechNet

The RTM builds of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode are now available for people with an MSDN / TechNet subscription.  On MSDN you can sign in and: Go to Subscriber Downloads Select Applications Scroll to the bottom of the list and select Windows
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 21 Comments
Monday, October 05, 2009 1:08 PM

Microsoft Security Essentials and Virtual PC

For as long as I have been working on Virtual PC – people have been asking me: “Do I need to install Antivirus software inside the virtual machine?” And the answer has always been: “Yes! You need to treat each virtual machine just like it were a separate
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:24 PM

Windows XP Mode / Windows Virtual PC RTM’s

We have just announced that we have signed off on the RTM release of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode.  It should be available on the Microsoft Download Center on October 22nd. Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 11 Comments
Thursday, October 01, 2009 1:14 AM

Using Floppy Disks with Windows Virtual PC

Most users of Windows Virtual PC do not need to use floppy disks with their virtual machines, as general usage of floppy disks has become rarer and rarer. Those who do need to use floppy disks – may think that they can no longer do this – as there is
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 19 Comments
Attachment(s): Floppy Drive Scripts.zip
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:01 AM

Quake II under Windows Virtual PC

It has been too long since I posted about gaming on Virtual PC.  And there is a lot to talk about!  Windows Virtual PC makes some things better for gaming, some things worse, and opens up new possibilities.  But for now, I want to start
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 13 Comments
Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:31 AM

Updated Windows Vista “seamless applications” package for Windows Virtual PC

There is a new update for Windows Vista virtual machines to enable the use of seamless applications with Windows Virtual PC.  You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=26a2de17-8355-4e8d-8f33-9211e48651fb
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Monday, September 07, 2009 8:23 PM

Windows Virtual PC / MED-V live meeting

I have landed in Australia, and am about to head down to Tech-Ed.  Apparently a lot of people are interested in the following session: Windows 7 XP Compatibility mode, Virtual PC and Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization So I will be doing
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 5:58 PM

Hotfix to help with Shared Folder Performance of Windows XP Mode

A number of users have seen performance issues using shared folders / having shared folders enabled with Windows XP Mode on the RC release of Windows Virtual PC.  This can be addressed by installing this hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;972435
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Friday, August 28, 2009 4:49 PM

Windows Virtual PC Integrated Applications on Multi-Monitor systems

When using integrated applications with Windows Virtual PC on multi-monitor computers there are a couple of “gotchas” to be aware of. We use Remote Desktop technology to provide our support for integrated applications. And as discussed here Remote Desktop
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
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