Virtual PC Newbie

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Hello,
I downloaded the 45 day free Virtual PC. I now have 10 days left and counting.
I have tried to make Virtual PC work, and simply stumpted.
Can anyone help me get on the right track, or tell me what I may be doing
wrong?
Thank you,
hal
 
It's hard to tell you what you are doing wrong until you tell us what you
have already done and what your specific problem are. Also, what are you
expecting VirtualPC to do for you? Maybe your perception of the product is
incorrect.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
holyhal said:
Hello,
I downloaded the 45 day free Virtual PC. I now have 10 days left and
counting.
I have tried to make Virtual PC work, and simply stumpted.
Can anyone help me get on the right track, or tell me what I may be doing
wrong?
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What is the Virtual PC?

Nick
 
Hi,
I downloaded Virtual PC successfully, at least that was the message. When I
try to open it a small dark screen appears in upper right. Menu on its right
is "New, Run, Start" there is one other I don't recall right now, Whatever I
click on brings up dark scree, "message : "put disc in and press any key."
There is no disc, and this is where I am at now. Also, I uninstalled VPC and
redownloaded again.
I understand that VPC will function as an OP within my PC, so that if I will
protect my OP I go to any "chancy sites" I assume you have a VPC that works
and I would appreciate your direction. I now have 9 days remaining and
counting
Thanks,
hal
 
Hi,
I downloaded Virtual PC successfully, at least that was the message. When
I try to open it a small dark screen appears in upper right. Menu on its
right is "New, Run, Start" there is one other I don't recall right now,
Whatever I click on brings up dark scree, "message : "put disc in and
press any key." There is no disc, and this is where I am at now. Also, I
uninstalled VPC and redownloaded again.
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Not familiar with VirtualPC, but isn't that used to run another operating
system under Windoze? So what disc do you think it's looking for? Probably
the other operating system you want to install. Are there no docs for this
thing? Did you bother reading them? Why would you want to even download
something that you obviously have no idea about what it's about and why
you'd even need it?


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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2370205018226686613

A 3D Linux Desktop (video) ...


View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
http://shots.osdir.com/
 
VirtualPC allows you to install a second, third, fourth and so on Operating
System that will run while you are booted up in Windows XP or Windows 2000.

It seems that you have installed VPC ok. Now you have to load an operating
system within VirtualPC for it to do anything.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
You load an operating system in VirtualPC the same way as you would if
loading it on a standard computer hard drive. In VirtualPC you create a
"virtual" hard drive to load the system on.

I suggest you use the help file within VirtualPC to find out how to do these
things. You are obviously a VirtualPC beginner. Use the supplied help.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Hi Richard,
Thanks
hal

Richard Urban said:
You load an operating system in VirtualPC the same way as you would if
loading it on a standard computer hard drive. In VirtualPC you create a
"virtual" hard drive to load the system on.

I suggest you use the help file within VirtualPC to find out how to do these
things. You are obviously a VirtualPC beginner. Use the supplied help.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
Click to expand...
 
holyhal said:
Hi Richard,
Thanks
hal
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Hi Hal,

What are you actually trying to accomplish?

The reason I ask, is if you are trying to do something like run a
version of Linux, you might want to go with the VMWare Player which
is free and has a number of free 'virtual machines' designed for it.
I run Fedora Core 5 Linux as a 'virtual machine' for a project I am
working on, and it works perfectly. I downloaded he Fedora Core 5
DVD ISO, and I can update it and use it just as though I was dual
booting with Linux.

I actually recommend it to people who need Linux. WindowsXP is where
the bulk of software is and 95%+ of my tools are in Windows so being
able to run a 'virtual machine' give me the best of both worlds.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

And on the seventh day God said,
"I will rest . . . Murphy take over."
 
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