Sent: 03/13/2007
From: "Vinod Atal [MSFT]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:Edit options.xml file located at %appdata%\Microsoft\Virtual PC folder.
In this file under <window> <console> verify values for
<left_position> and <top_position>. (You can change these to 10,10)
BTW, do you use dual monitor setup? Curious how you got into this situation.
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"BA" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I cannot solve this problem. I recently upgraded to VPC 2007.
>
> My Virtual PC console will not appear on the screen any longer. It
> appears minimized in the tray in the bottom right hand corner but when I
> right click it and select "show virtual PC console" it does not appear. I
> do see "Virtual PC console" on my taskbar but I cannot see the console on
> my screen. When I right click, both restore and maximize are greyed out.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> BA
>
Sent: 03/15/2007
From: "u2sparky"<(email address - cut out)>
Message:
Thank you for this, I had the exact same issue with Virtual PC 2007 running on Windows XP Pro SP2 on my laptop.
I do not use dual monitors, and I have no idea what I did that caused those two values to appear as 4294935296, and 4294935296 in my Options.xml file.
Thanks again,
u2sparky
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> Hello,
>
> I cannot solve this problem. I recently upgraded to VPC 2007.
>
> My Virtual PC console will not appear on the screen any longer. It appears
> minimized in the tray in the bottom right hand corner but when I right click
> it and select "show virtual PC console" it does not appear. I do see
> "Virtual PC console" on my taskbar but I cannot see the console on my
> screen. When I right click, both restore and maximize are greyed out.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> BA
>
Sent: 03/23/2007
From: "Erl Egestad"<(email address - cut out)>
Message:
Thanks for this post. I did nothing besides power down my Vista Pc and then this problem showed up.
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> Hello,
>
> I cannot solve this problem. I recently upgraded to VPC 2007.
>
> My Virtual PC console will not appear on the screen any longer. It appears
> minimized in the tray in the bottom right hand corner but when I right click
> it and select "show virtual PC console" it does not appear. I do see
> "Virtual PC console" on my taskbar but I cannot see the console on my
> screen. When I right click, both restore and maximize are greyed out.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> BA
>
Sent: 03/25/2007
From: "William LaMartin" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:You jinxed me.
After reading this post, I went and started Virtual PC on my desktop
computer and it immediately minimized itself with no option to restore.
Where can I find a setting to fix this? I saw nothing in the registry.
I suppose I could uninstall and reinstall.
"Erl Egestad" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
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>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I cannot solve this problem. I recently upgraded to VPC 2007.
>>
>> My Virtual PC console will not appear on the screen any longer. It
>> appears
>> minimized in the tray in the bottom right hand corner but when I right
>> click
>> it and select "show virtual PC console" it does not appear. I do see
>> "Virtual PC console" on my taskbar but I cannot see the console on my
>> screen. When I right click, both restore and maximize are greyed out.
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>> BA
>>
>
> Thanks for this post. I did nothing besides power down my Vista Pc and
> then this problem showed up.
>
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Sent: 03/26/2007
From: "BA" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:
Edit options.xml file located at %appdata%\Microsoft\Virtual PC folder.
In this file under <window> <console> verify values for
<left_position> and <top_position>. (You can change these to 10,10)
BA
"William LaMartin" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
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> You jinxed me.
>
> After reading this post, I went and started Virtual PC on my desktop
> computer and it immediately minimized itself with no option to restore.
>
> Where can I find a setting to fix this? I saw nothing in the registry.
>
> I suppose I could uninstall and reinstall.
>
> "Erl Egestad" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I cannot solve this problem. I recently upgraded to VPC 2007.
>>>
>>> My Virtual PC console will not appear on the screen any longer. It
>>> appears
>>> minimized in the tray in the bottom right hand corner but when I right
>>> click
>>> it and select "show virtual PC console" it does not appear. I do see
>>> "Virtual PC console" on my taskbar but I cannot see the console on my
>>> screen. When I right click, both restore and maximize are greyed out.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help?
>>>
>>> BA
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for this post. I did nothing besides power down my Vista Pc and
>> then this problem showed up.
>>
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>
Sent: 03/26/2007
From: "William LaMartin" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:Thanks.
Now the question is how did those setting get changed. Instead of something
reasonable like 10, they were
<top_position type="integer">4294935296</top_position> and similarly for
left_position.
"BA" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
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>
> Edit options.xml file located at %appdata%\Microsoft\Virtual PC folder.
> In this file under <window> <console> verify values for
> <left_position> and <top_position>. (You can change these to 10,10)
>
> BA
>
Sent: 03/26/2007
From: "BA" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:I dont know either.
I doubt the problem is triggered from anything we are doing. I had the same
huge number appear and unless I am using a 38 foot monitor its a bug.
"William LaMartin" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
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> Thanks.
>
> Now the question is how did those setting get changed. Instead of
> something reasonable like 10, they were
>
> <top_position type="integer">4294935296</top_position> and similarly for
> left_position.
>
>
> "BA" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>>
>> Edit options.xml file located at %appdata%\Microsoft\Virtual PC folder.
>> In this file under <window> <console> verify values for
>> <left_position> and <top_position>. (You can change these to 10,10)
>>
>> BA
>>
>
>
Sent: 04/06/2007
From: JBilliter
Message:This happened to me also, VPC console started minimized, and couldnt do
anything with it. Changing the options.xml file worked.
Before I read this post, I found that I could still run an existing virtual
PC by double clicking the .vmc file
"BA" wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I cannot solve this problem. I recently upgraded to VPC 2007.
>
> My Virtual PC console will not appear on the screen any longer. It appears
> minimized in the tray in the bottom right hand corner but when I right click
> it and select "show virtual PC console" it does not appear. I do see
> "Virtual PC console" on my taskbar but I cannot see the console on my
> screen. When I right click, both restore and maximize are greyed out.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> BA
>
>
>
Sent: 04/10/2007
From: "BA" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:True, and you can also click the icon on the sys tray and manage it from
there.
"JBilliter" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
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> This happened to me also, VPC console started minimized, and couldnt do
> anything with it. Changing the options.xml file worked.
> Before I read this post, I found that I could still run an existing
> virtual
> PC by double clicking the .vmc file
>
> "BA" wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I cannot solve this problem. I recently upgraded to VPC 2007.
>>
>> My Virtual PC console will not appear on the screen any longer. It
>> appears
>> minimized in the tray in the bottom right hand corner but when I right
>> click
>> it and select "show virtual PC console" it does not appear. I do see
>> "Virtual PC console" on my taskbar but I cannot see the console on my
>> screen. When I right click, both restore and maximize are greyed out.
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>> BA
>>
>>
>>
Sent: 04/14/2007
From: "rnmcbrd"<(email address - cut out)>
Message:
I edited the file but every time I started virtual pc those changes went back to the way they were before. Any other suggestions?
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> Hello,
>
> I cannot solve this problem. I recently upgraded to VPC 2007.
>
> My Virtual PC console will not appear on the screen any longer. It appears
> minimized in the tray in the bottom right hand corner but when I right click
> it and select "show virtual PC console" it does not appear. I do see
> "Virtual PC console" on my taskbar but I cannot see the console on my
> screen. When I right click, both restore and maximize are greyed out.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> BA
>
Sent: 04/16/2007
From: bill tie
Message:
Vinod,
This has got to be a bug.
My host is Win2k3 SP1.
1. I've no special monitor or monitor setup.
2. I do nothing unusual.
3. It's happened to me twice in the past mnth or so.
4. It never happened to Vpc2k4 on the same host.
Sent: 04/19/2007
From: "Peter Bech"<(email address - cut out)>
Message:
Same story here:
left_position type="integer">4294935296</left_position
top_position type="integer">4294935296</top_position
It helped to change the values to 10/10 in the "Options.xml" file. (though it was found in this path: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Virtual PC and NOT C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Microsoft\Virtual PC.
I do not use dual displays like in "two monitors at the same time", but I do use MS Virtual PC 2007 on a labtop display AND (when I come home) on my external display...
It might have triggered this? I don't know, but the values "4294935296" are really out of proportions!
Thanks for the answer.
/Peter Bech
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> Hello,
>
> I cannot solve this problem. I recently upgraded to VPC 2007.
>
> My Virtual PC console will not appear on the screen any longer. It appears
> minimized in the tray in the bottom right hand corner but when I right click
> it and select "show virtual PC console" it does not appear. I do see
> "Virtual PC console" on my taskbar but I cannot see the console on my
> screen. When I right click, both restore and maximize are greyed out.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> BA
>
Sent: 10/04/2007
From: "omen666"<(email address - cut out)>
Message:
Thanks this resolved my issue as well when I removed a extended monitor
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> Hello,
>
> I cannot solve this problem. I recently upgraded to VPC 2007.
>
> My Virtual PC console will not appear on the screen any longer. It appears
> minimized in the tray in the bottom right hand corner but when I right click
> it and select "show virtual PC console" it does not appear. I do see
> "Virtual PC console" on my taskbar but I cannot see the console on my
> screen. When I right click, both restore and maximize are greyed out.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> BA
>
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