>Today I upgraded a reliable VPC6.1 installation to VPC7 and met with
>disaster at every turn! To begin with, the software went on OK but
>then I tried to import my VPC6 environment. This flashed an error
>message and appeared frozen when I loaded VPC7. I kept playing with it
>and was on the verge of ringing Microsoft in desperation when, without
>warning, it booted up and allowed me to log in - albeit at the pace of
>cold treacle. It also had a bizarre problem that was never apparent in
>VPC6 that the mouse cursor would only work in the VPC window, so the
>only way to return to Finder was to Apple-Tab to regain control over my
>desktop.
>
>Consulting the help files, I decided to allocate more memory to the VPC
>virtual machine, so I shut down and changed the settings. Then I
>restarted, to find the following error message:
>
> Windows could not start because the following file is missing or
>corrupt:
> <Windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe.
> Please re-install a copy of the above file.
>
>Since I can't get to a command line to install that file, even assuming
>I had a copy, I thought it best to install a fresh XP session from the
>VPC disks. Next problem: VPC7 upgrade disks come without XP Pro. I
>have XP Pro on the VPC6 disks, but the VPC7 installer won't even
>acknowledge the VPC6 disks at all!