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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 | 5 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 | 11 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 | 31 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 | 22 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
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
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:11 AM

I am speaking at Tech-Ed Australia and Tech-Ed New Zealand

Immediately after attending VMworld this year I am going to be jumping on a plane and heading back home to speak at Tech-Ed Australia and Tech-Ed New Zealand . At both of these shows I am going to be giving two presentations: Windows 7 XP Compatability
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:10 PM

Changing the DPI settings of Windows XP Mode

I have a deep, dark secret to confess.  I run Windows in high DPI mode (this is where Windows displays larger text / icons).  I do not know why, but as a “tech guy” I sense some deep shame over this.  However, I just find my computer screens
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Monday, August 17, 2009 3:40 PM

Windows Virtual PC RC and Jump Lists

In the RC release of Windows Virtual PC, one of the key changes was to integrate support for Windows 7 jump lists .  Our jump lists are there to help you to: Launch common applications inside virtual machines. By hovering on the “Windows Virtual
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Friday, August 14, 2009 3:06 PM

Windows Virtual PC Team Blog Launched

The Windows Virtual PC team have started a team blog over here: http://blogs.technet.com/windows_vpc/ So keep an eye on it for more information coming out about Windows Virtual PC. Cheers, Ben
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Tuesday, August 04, 2009 10:21 AM

Windows Virtual PC RC now Available!

You can go and download the RC release for Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP mode now: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx Some key changes in this release include: Granular drive sharing In the settings on the virtual machine, you
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 38 Comments
Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:14 PM

Multiple Seamless Applications with Windows Virtual PC

We have spent a lot of time telling people how Windows Virtual PC and Virtual XP mode will allow them to run incompatible legacy applications on Windows 7.  Unfortunately a number of people have come away with the impression that you can only do
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 11 Comments
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