With the VPC 2004 additions installed, the copy and paste
oparations in host machine doesn't work (copy doesn't
copy and the clipboard is always empty). This for any
copy and paste operation (file in explorer or text in

After upgrading to VPC 2004, my images from 5.2 seem to
run slower, about 75% of normal speed.  Is this
expected?  Why are they slower?
Thanks,

I am installing VPC on a notebook that doesn't have a floppy.
I want to install NT 4 and Windows ME guests. These require a boot floppy.
VPC has the facility to use a floppy image (.vfd file) but doesn't say
enough about the "many third-party utilities" that can be used to build a

any news on setting up longhorn in virtual pc 2004, msdn
download has note that info will be available, but cant
find any yet
paul

I am trying to install Win98 on a VM I created for win 98 but I get the
above error.
How does one overcome this?
My win 98 sec edition should just load shouldn't it?

I have installed Win NT but when it boots I am asked to hit
alt-control-delete but even though I use the right alt key to move into the
guest pc when I hit alt-control-delete it opens my host ex panel and not NTs
Any Ideas?

Is it SOMEHOW possible get the soundcard working after
installing MS-DOS 6.22? I tried the original creative
drivers and even the PnP configuration manager!
Does anyone know?

Is there anyway of generating a Virtual PC image of my
real computer to load into Virtual PC.
For instance so that I can install a load of rubbish onto
it to see what happens before doing the same to my real

How to I get a Token Ring Card to work with TCPIP in
a Shared Networking environment?
Subject:  Re: OS/2 token ring
From:  "Benjamin Armstrong [MSFT]"

ok after having no luck with getting a windows server
2003 working on VPC 5.2 I upgraded to VPC2004 in hope
that would solve the problem.
At the end of installation (each and every time I have

how do i compress a . VPC . VDH file after installing SP1 on a WinXP VPC the
file is 500 MB larger but the file size sum is only 80 MB larger.
How do i compress the . VHD file, and remove the free space

Has anyone been able to restore a PQ image with VPC?
When I boot the PQ disk I get cannot find network card,
I have  in the past backed up my machine before, so I know
the NIC in my machine is compatible with PQ..

In the help documentation, VPC 2004 talks about the various adapter
configurations.  Not Connected (self explanitory), Local (only network
to other virtual PC's), Shared Networking (NAT using the local
physical machine the VM is running on), Network Adapter on the

I have run in to a problem with the mouse in Windows XP under VPC 2004 (from
MSDN).
I have an application, where I get 2 mouse pointers. So I turned off the
mouse pointer integration off. When I ended the application to the mouse

I'm working for a company that are looking to use VPC
version 5.1, on W2000 PCs (256M RAM, SP2).
We're trying to run W95 on this, & off this some DOS apps.
The DOS apps open fine three times.