Re: MS Virtual PC is free

David Clegg wrote:

That's what my brother said too when he had a look (his company is a
VMWare reseller). He tried all his usual VMWare Server optimization
techniques but my PC was strangely resistant. Perhaps I should also
try it on my laptop, which as double the RAM (2GB).

How much ram has your PC got? A couple of major things to check are..

/3gb on your startup of windows
disable AV running on your vm guest directory.

I may well do that. But what I really should do is nag my brother
about the copy of VMWare Workstation he promised me. :-)

You could download the trial and see how that performs. :)

--
Liz the Brit
Delphi things I have released: http://www.xcalibur.co.uk/DelphiThings
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