[Maflynn]

After much hemming and hawing, I decided to byte the bullet and pick up a copy of VP 7. I bought the stand alone edition as I already owned XP and win2k.

Performance on my G5 was faster then I thought it was going to be, especially in light of the negative threads here and else where.

Perhaps its my edition, but there doesn't seem a way to either set the size of a new drive or shrink it.

I've tried both XP and win2k and while win2k is marginally faster, I think the extra security fixes that xp provides may be a safer route.

Here's some percularites I've found so far - more to follow I'm sure:
for some reason my text editor (ultraedit ) I use for doesn't work. It crashes and takes out a VPC service.

Ms office 2000, the VBA help doesn't seem to work right, not sure if this is a VPC issue or a MS issue being an older version of MS Office.

I'll try this on my PB next, but over all for winblows, it doesn't suck (to steal bbedit's tag line).

Mike

[uberwrensch]

I've had a similar issue when trying to run my favorite MP3 tagger, Tag&Rename. Installs fine in W2K c/o VPC7 *I think* but when I try to run the program it crashes--spits out an "it's being written out to error log" Windows message.

Whatever.

You may want to look at the Windows system logs and such if you hadn't already.

Uber

[Maflynn]

Another observation, perhaps I just noticed. My G5 boots up slower now, when finder starts I hear the disk cranking away, it didn't do that before, so I wonder if VPC added added some daemons. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary when running a top.


btw, I found how to change the disk from dynamically sized to fixed and shrink it.

Mike

[Sven G]

Not sure if it has anything to do with a noticeably slower boot-up, but Virtual PC 7 is no longer a completely self-contained app bundle, as in version 6: besides installing /Applications/Virtual PC.app (an app bundle), the installer also adds stuff to the /Library/Extensions, /Library/StartupItems, /Library/Plug-ins and /Library/Scripts folders.

[Maflynn]

Originally posted by Sven G:
Not sure if it has anything to do with a noticeably slower boot-up, but Virtual PC 7 is no longer a completely self-contained app bundle, as in version 6: besides installing /Applications/Virtual PC.app (an app bundle), the installer also adds stuff to the /Library/Extensions, /Library/StartupItems, /Library/Plug-ins and /Library/Scripts folders.

Thanks,
I knew it had to be something, I forgot about the startup folder.