How to move a virtual PC 's image (Windows Virtual PC) to a new location in Windows 7?

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Published on 2010-04-27T12:11:49Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 12:13 UTC
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I tried to move the image files of my virtual pc to a new folder location but I cannot do it. The system keeps saying the file .vcm is being used by the Virual PC Host Process. The other files can be moved though.

If you have a work-around for this, please help!

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