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A couple questions on VPC 7

Source: microsoft.public.mac.virtualpc
Sent: 05/16/2005
From: John <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

People,
A few months ago I installed VPC 7.0.1 and migrated Windows XP Home from
my previous install of VPC 5. I has been working fine until I received a
message saying something to the effect that I was running out of hard
disk space (I assume due to the ever expanding "feature" of Windows).
Under VPC 5 I simply saved my data and then trashed the expanded virtual
disk and replaced it with a virgin copy I had saved when I first
installed VPC and Windows. A bit brute force perhaps but the process
worked fine. This time when I tried it with VPC 7 everything seemed to
go fine until Windows started up. I now get a message saying, "A problem
has prevented Windows from accurately checking the status of the license
for the computer. To proceed your copy of Windows must be activated with
Microsoft. Do you want to activate Windows now?" That would be fine
except the mouse is frozen on the Windows desktop so I can't do anything.

Ok, here are my questions.
1. How do I "thaw out" the mouse? I tried updating additions but nothing
happened.

2. If I wanted to reclaim free disk space, what third party software is
recommended for zeroing out data in the virtual hard disk?

Thanks in advance
John

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Re: A couple questions on VPC 7

Sent: 05/17/2005
From: Michael Paine <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

John
Cant help you with VPC7 as I dont yet have it. Once in a while I
resinstall a backup of my VPC6.1 file without problems. This is a very
important feature of VPC (made easier by having your data in a separate
d: drive file http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/aoaug/mac_osx.html#d-drive).

Your experience suggests that it is not easy to restore a VPC7 image. It
appears that the irritating licensing check of XP has made this
difficult under VPC7. Have others tried restoring a back-up image in VPC7?

You might try the tip from Jennifer about migrating from VPC6 to VPC7
(ie creating a new virtual drive. See a few lines down from the above
link. It might also work with your VPC7 image.

Incidentally, to escape from a VPC freeze press the Command key and your
mouse pointer should reappear in OS X.

Michael Paine

Incidentally,

John wrote:

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> People,
> A few months ago I installed VPC 7.0.1 and migrated Windows XP Home from
> my previous install of VPC 5. I has been working fine until I received a
> message saying something to the effect that I was running out of hard
> disk space (I assume due to the ever expanding "feature" of Windows).
> Under VPC 5 I simply saved my data and then trashed the expanded virtual
> disk and replaced it with a virgin copy I had saved when I first
> installed VPC and Windows. A bit brute force perhaps but the process
> worked fine. This time when I tried it with VPC 7 everything seemed to
> go fine until Windows started up. I now get a message saying, "A problem
> has prevented Windows from accurately checking the status of the license
> for the computer. To proceed your copy of Windows must be activated with
> Microsoft. Do you want to activate Windows now?" That would be fine
> except the mouse is frozen on the Windows desktop so I can't do anything.
>
> Ok, here are my questions.
> 1. How do I "thaw out" the mouse? I tried updating additions but nothing
> happened.
>
> 2. If I wanted to reclaim free disk space, what third party software is
> recommended for zeroing out data in the virtual hard disk?
>
> Thanks in advance
> John

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