Usually, I want the top menu gone (to save screen real estate). However,
then it seems impossible to change what ISO you have captured for the CD
drive, so you need the top menu. And to enable THAT you have to power down
the guest - why, and is there a way around this?

Hi, I'm trying to use VPC to connect to a different domain with a laptop
without losing my connection to my main domain.  I'm running XP Pro SP1 on
both the host and guest machines.  If I use Shared NAT, I can connect to the
internet with the guest machine, but I can't connect to ...

Can I load a guest o/s (win 98 or Dos) on pc running win2k that doesn't
support dos or win98  nativley? We have some legacy apps that only run in a
DOS environment however the new systems we are purchasing don't support the
older o/s. Can I use virtual PC to get around this or ...

I created a DOS partition in VPC, but I can't format the drive...I'm told the
function is not supported....Also, when the OS looks like it installing I get
a message saying, "please wait while setup initializes, scanning system
registry", but that   process just hangs forever.... ...

I created a DOS partition in VPC for 98se but I could not format the drive, I
got a message saying the operation is not supported. Also, at one point after
that when I run setup.exe from the 98 disc, it starts and then hangs. The
message on the screen is "Scanning Systen ...

Hi people,
I have very strange problems getting the network to work in virtual pc
2004. My collegues don't seem to suffer from it, while they have the
very same hardware and software conditions. Or, in either way,

Hi all, I've been working with Virtual PC 2004 for a few weeks - so I am a
newby to this arena and  have run across a show stopper of a problem.
I am trying to Ghost an image that was setup on a Dell GX260 that has a HAL
setting - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) ...

This problem has been seen on 2 Dell D600 laptops, with 2 GB RAM, 2 GHZ CPU
and over 10 Gb free space on the hard drive.
Both laptops had W2K SP4, VS .Net2003, IIS and  McAfee. Install Virtual PC
2004, and after a few minutes  the pc reboots. While rebooting it reaches to

I am trying to configure the following virtual machine:
Operating System - DOS 6.22
Memory Manager   - EMM386
Network Protocol - IPX

I'm trying to run a DOS based building access system on VPC.  The system runs
fine in native DOS but the COM based interfaces don't appear to recognize the
hardware in VPC.  I've taken the DOS files directly from the existing boot
disk and copied them to VPC so the files are ...

I installed successfully Windows to Virtual PC SP1. Windows version doesn't
matter.
When windows is completely loaded, I start any application that has Edit
control. If I move mouse into the Edit control rectangle, mouse pointer will

Hello, I'm trying to install Windows 95, but it keeps freezing up when it
gets to the Setup screen (after the initial % count). I've done the following:
- Installed MS-DOS 7.1 (couldn't find any other version) and in doing so,
partitioned the drive as FAT/16/32

In the VM-bios you can select various floppy-drives but when trying to
capture a 2.88 MB floppy image.
Does VPC has support for 2.88 MB diskettes?
/David

Trying to get network connectivity from dos to load an OS image to VPC.
Dos disk does not find the NIC from within VPC in order to connect to the
network.
Works OK from the Host system.

Im having problems when tried to boot with a network floppy disk in my VPC
2004 SP1, i cant get network resources because the virtual driver doesnt work.
Does anyone have a floppy disk image or something like this?
Thanks.