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I"m using Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 (host) running Windows XP (as the Guest O/S)
I'm trying to get the Microphone working.
When I Enable Integration Features:
Microphone does not work
When I run the Sound Recorder, the record button is disabled. If I look at Sound settings, there are no options for the Mic (it's all disabled "grayed out").
Speakers work
Copy & Paste works
When I Disable Integration Features:
Microphone and speakers work
Copy and Paste does not (as expected)
Drag'n Drop copying does not work in either situation.
What I've Tried
Verified that the Windows XP Mode Virtual PC guest also has the same symptoms (Mic doesn't work) and audio out (speakers) do work.
I"m going to try (but have little hope) to:
-Uninstall and Reinstall the Integration addin for Virtual PC
The "Add UNC Location" tab is missing in my Windows 7 Advanced Options dialog of Search Indexing.
Related to this question:
http://superuser.com/questions/97991/is-there-a-way-to-get-windows-7-to-index-shared-network-drives
Any idea why? And how to enable it?
Running Windows 7 Pro, 32 bit.
Installed Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode. Got XP Mode working but now when I run
StartProgramsWindows Virtual PC Windows Virtual PC it just opens a Windows Explorer folder showing the XP Mode Virtual PC: Windows XP Mode.vmcx
What's up?
I just got a very quiet Dell Optiplex 960 (with dual monitor video card) and wanted a 3rd monitor (only a PCI slot available). The PCI video card I got has a relatively loud (compared to this quiet PC) fan.
I'm looking for a quiet card. Need not be very powerful as it's for the third screen which I don't use for video or games, etc.
Any suggestions?
I know that you can create a Virtual HD in Virtual PC that is linked to a physical drive so it's not compressed, runs faster, etc.
I'm now using Windows 7 and I don't see any way to create such a VHD. Only options are Dynamic, Fixed, Differencing.
Any ideas?
Xeon: Dual Core Intel® Xeon® W3503 2.40GHz, 4M L3, 4.8GT/s
Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400 (6MB,3.0 GHz, 1333FSB),
USES:
Virtual PC (and doing software development within Virtual PC)
A little bit of video editing
Desktop software (like Outlook, Quickbooks, etc.)
I think #1 is faster, but wanted feedback from other folks here.
Which is faster and why?
Thanks!
I've got an EEE Netbook with Intel Atom processor and Win XP.
Probably 90% of the time I'm using it for webbrowsing and thinking of dual booting it in Linux and then booting into Windows only when I need to...if it would speed things up.
I've tried using FF and Chrome, both are about equally slow on the netbook.
Anyone have any idea of the comparative stats on this?
I've got an EEE Netbook with Intel Atom processor and Win XP.
Probably 90% of the time I'm using it for webbrowsing and thinking of dual booting it in Linux and then booting into Windows only when I need to...if it would speed things up.
I've tried using FF and Chrome, both are about equally slow on the netbook.
Anyone have any idea of the comparative stats on this?
I'm using Virtual PC on Windows 7 and have periodically gotten this error when trying to shut down:
Cannot shutdown a locked virtual machine.
Google search on "locked virtual machine" Virtual PC revealed no solution for Virtual PC.
I have a bunch of programming projects on my P:\ drive (on Windows 7)
I'm now doing some programming within Virtual PC Windows XP Mode and I'd like to "call" that drive, within the Win XP guest, the P: drive. I've mapped drive letter P: to "network" drive on the Host but that goes across the network so it's very slow.
I tried using the SUBST command but it wouldn't take the \tsclients\p as a parameter. Basically, the command line interpreter (is that DOS on Win 7 ??) doesn't recognize that directory (\tsclients\p)
I'm helping (pro bono) a really cool musician make samples of his music available so folks can share it. Essentially "shareware" for his music.
Surely someone must have done this before.
So far, I've found : http://sutros.com/ which is free but I've not read up on their Creative Commons license.
And found a list here of other sites:
http://www.vocalist.org.uk/artists_upload.html
Any other suggestions?
I'm looking for a good keyboard tray that would attach to my desk drawer (one of the old metal SteelCase desks).
Criteria:
Stable and solid (we had one that wiggled and it drove me crazy).
Allows the drawer to move in and out.
Easy installation would be nice.
Inexpensive (<$100) would be nice, but I'll consider expensive ones if they meet all of the above.
Lets say you built a prototype of a product using a microcontroller and a few little parts (LEDs, etc.)
If you wanted to have it mass produced, where my you go? Alibaba.com?
I'm trying to add a second hard drive within Virtual PC without formatting it.
I followed the instructions for adding a second hard drive but when I add go the the Computer ManagementDisk Management console it wants to format it.
The reason I want to add this second hard drive is that it has data on it that I want available to this instance of Virtual PC
I have a bunch of programming projects on my P:\ drive (on Windows 7)
I'm now doing some programming within Virtual PC Windows XP Mode and I'd like to "call" that drive, within the Win XP guest, the P: drive. I've mapped drive letter P: to "network" drive on the Host but that goes across the network so it's very slow.
I tried using the SUBST command but it wouldn't take the \tsclients\p as a parameter. Basically, the command line interpreter (is that DOS on Win 7 ??) doesn't recognize that directory (\tsclients\p)
I have run into this problem several times:
I go to install some software in Virtual PC with a Dynamic HD on the Guest O/S. And while the HD can expand up to 16 GB or so (plenty to spare on the physical HD) the Guest O/S sees only 3 GB or so (and maybe 500 MB free). And the installer balks that there isn't enough HD space available to install within the Guest O/S.
Any ideas?
When I look at our website in IE8 the text we have set to display smaller doesn't display smaller. But when I use BrowserShots.org it shows IE8 renderings with the smaller text appropriately smaller.
So I'm thinking that there must be some setting in IE8 for "minimum font size to display". It's not the the TextSize (set to Medium) or Zoom setting (I set/reset zoom to 100%). It's something else.
Any ideas?
When I plug a USB thumb drive into my Win7 PC, it no longer auto-launches the window giving me options like "Import Photos" or "browse". The drive is recognized but nothing autolaunches.
Similarly, CD's don't autoplay either.
I verified that Win7 is set to autoplay, per method 1 and 2 of:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/27544-autoplay-enable-disable-autorun.html
FYI, there is a similar question (but for Windows XP) here on SU.
Windows Vista introduced ReadyBoost which lets you use a Flash drive as a third (after RAM and HD) type of memory.
It occurred to me that I could boost peformance on an old PC here w/ Win XP (32 bit, max'd at 4GB RAM) by putting it's swap file (page file) on a flash drive.
(Now, before anyone comments: apparently Flash drives (10-30MB/s transfer rates) are slower than HDD (100+ MB/s) (I'm asking that as a separate question on this forum).
I could just compress the directory as a .zip file w/ a password (which I think would just look like a compressed folder w/ a password) but I'd like something with less overhead (i.e., none of the decompression, etc.)
Any ideas?
Clarification/update: I'd like to have anyone be able to access it from another computer if they know the password. I.e., I don't want them to have to log in as a different user, etc., but, rather just enter a password.
Windows 8 will, AFAIK, be available in two very different flavors: One that supports old Windows programs (intel processor, I think) and the other will be an ARM processor which does NOT support x86 programs.
I need to know how to refer to these to let customers clearly know which version of Windows we (currently) support.
It looks like the terminology is:
Windows 8 : This will be backward compatible with Win 32 apps.
Windows RT: Runs on ARM-based processor devices (probably mainly
tablets) and does not support