[l008com]

I'm looking to speed up Virtual PC. I'm running 5.0.4 on OS 10.2. Now I turn sound off in the prefs and always close the PC List windows and sometimes it will run for a day, sometimes 10 minutes. But I did realize I had the colors up to thousands, so I turned them down to 256 and it seems to be running alot better and therefore more stable. Is there anything else I can do to speed it up? The PC equivalent of disabling some unused extensions maybe? I'm on Win2K by the way. Also, anyone know anything about an upgrade, so it won't crash so much, so I can actually let it run overnight and not have to force quit it in the morning?

Also its set to 96 MB of RAM out of my 640 MB total.

[Mr. Blur]

try running in "full screen" mode if you are not already.

[jules]

Why have you set the RAM so low?

[l008com]

I don't know that was what VPC recommended, and I read somewhere that setting it high doesn't help too much. And I do use it full screen.

[Eddies in the aether]

Originally posted by l008com:
I'm looking to speed up Virtual PC. I'm running 5.0.4 on OS 10.2. Now I turn sound off in the prefs and always close the PC List windows and sometimes it will run for a day, sometimes 10 minutes. But I did realize I had the colors up to thousands, so I turned them down to 256 and it seems to be running alot better and therefore more stable. Is there anything else I can do to speed it up? The PC equivalent of disabling some unused extensions maybe? I'm on Win2K by the way. Also, anyone know anything about an upgrade, so it won't crash so much, so I can actually let it run overnight and not have to force quit it in the morning?

Also its set to 96 MB of RAM out of my 640 MB total.

I had horrible problems with vpc 5.04 (running w2k with 512MB of pc memory within a window) & 10.2 and later 10.2.1. Switched to a backup pc disc, reinstalled OSX (archival install) up to 10.2.1, redid the permissions, turned off the PC sound and kept the pc list window closed. Everything seems to be back to normal, and is in fact quite fast the pc does not space out (ie it keeps on number crunching and the cursor no longer hangs), disc access is normal. The only way I could be happier would be if the pc program ran on a mac

[PubGuy]

NT2000 you should set VPC virtual machine to no more than 256M. I did a bunch of speed tests (launching NT, loading a specific app, closing the app, then closing NT). 256MB seemed the optimum setting. I also remember reading somewhere that this was also Connectix's recommended setting for NT2000.

Gotta try the 256 color trick though...I've been keeping the video set to the same as the Mac's setting.

[ginoledesma]

Never got beyond Windows 98. I actually prefer running MS Windows 95 (with all the updates), since I don't have apps that require newer versions of the OS. USB support in Windows 95 came in a later service pack (can't remember which). USB Plug-and-Play in Win9x isn't that great, but its usable.

[dazzla]

The best configuration I've found is the following:

* Windows 2000 SP3
* 256mb allocated
* dynamic drives off and set to your chosen size
* full screen
* sounds turned off in VPC settings
* quit every single app including the finder

That's about it, I get pretty nippy Windows 2000 then.