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Does Virtual PC work with MS-Access? ...
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A friend and potential switcher would like to know. I've never used Virtual PC.
Thanks very much in advance!
Chris
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Perfect, thanks very much! ;-)
Chris
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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I had problems with it -- some things just didn't work right.
Rather than spending $200 for VPC, I'd just buy a used PC for $200 instead.
tooki
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Access seems to work fine for me, but your taking a pretty good speed hit. I'd also recommend a cheap PC as an alternative.
Mike
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Access is a very processor-intensive application, particularly if you have it do anything with a large database. It can drag a fast PC down pretty easily. Running VPC is processor- and memory-intensive by itself, so adding Access to the mix is bound to make it feel like your computer is crawling. Tooki's right-get a cheap (but relatively fast) PC to play with Access, and you'll be glad you did.
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No, Access is not a very processor-intensive application. My machine at work is a P4 at about 2 GHz, I forget the exact number, and the CPU is never strained even when working with large databases. It is a very disk intensive application, which is the reason that it's so slow under VPC. VPC emulates all disk access into reads and writes to a file on the Mac disk, creating a rather large overhead. Now, if VPC would let you run from one native NTFS partition, not mounted on the MAc side at all, this would be mitigated. If it could run off a second hardrive formatted with NTFS and an appropriate partition map, it would go away altogther.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by P
No, Access is not a very processor-intensive application. My machine at work is a P4 at about 2 GHz, I forget the exact number, and the CPU is never strained even when working with large databases. It is a very disk intensive application, which is the reason that it's so slow under VPC. VPC emulates all disk access into reads and writes to a file on the Mac disk, creating a rather large overhead. Now, if VPC would let you run from one native NTFS partition, not mounted on the MAc side at all, this would be mitigated. If it could run off a second hardrive formatted with NTFS and an appropriate partition map, it would go away altogther.
The 2.4GHz P4 I used to build a fairly large and complex Access application did fine until the thing got fairly complex. With anything beyond the simplest of comparison functions or filters, it seemed to slow way down; a sort-for action that would take no perceptible time at all when it was just alphabetical took as much as 30 seconds once I added a couple of other conditions and a lot of data to search. For arranging simple data sets it was REALLY fast, but once the data set and granularity of data organization got beyond a certain complexity, the CPU really had to work.
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Glenn -----
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