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Slow Virtual PC & Win XP Home on iMac G5

Source: microsoft.public.mac.virtualpc
Sent: 05/18/2009
From: (email address - cut out)
Message:

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

I have VPC 7.0.3 "walking" Windows XP Home in my G5, which has 2gh processor and 1.5gb memory (boosted from 512mb) and and I've set PC memory at the maximum of 512mb. I've ditched just about app I can think of to make it run reasonably but "no go".

Has anybody out there got any ideas for running it reasonably fast?

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Re: Slow Virtual PC & Win XP Home on iMac G5

Sent: 05/18/2009
From: Michael Vilain <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

In article <(email address - cut out)absDaxw>,
(email address - cut out) wrote:

Go into the help pages of VPC. There are some recommendations on making
XP faster, like turning off the extra graphics so that it looks like NT
3.5. Also, any virus scanner will drag your system down right after
boot as it scans the disk for about 10 minutes or more.

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> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
> Processor: Power PC
>
> I have VPC 7.0.3 "walking" Windows XP Home in my G5, which has 2gh processor
> and 1.5gb memory (boosted from 512mb) and and I've set PC memory at the
> maximum of 512mb. I've ditched just about app I can think of to make it run
> reasonably but "no go".
>
> Has anybody out there got any ideas for running it reasonably fast?

Re: Slow Virtual PC & Win XP Home on iMac G5

Sent: 05/18/2009
From: "Steve Jain [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Mon, 18 May 2009 10:18:30 -0700, Michael Vilain
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

Maybe NT4 or Windows 2000, but not NT3.5. NT3.5 still had the Windows
3.1 look. ;-0

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>In article <(email address - cut out)absDaxw>,
> (email address - cut out) wrote:
>
>> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
>> Processor: Power PC
>>
>> I have VPC 7.0.3 "walking" Windows XP Home in my G5, which has 2gh processor
>> and 1.5gb memory (boosted from 512mb) and and I've set PC memory at the
>> maximum of 512mb. I've ditched just about app I can think of to make it run
>> reasonably but "no go".
>>
>> Has anybody out there got any ideas for running it reasonably fast?
>
>Go into the help pages of VPC. There are some recommendations on making
>XP faster, like turning off the extra graphics so that it looks like NT
>3.5. Also, any virus scanner will drag your system down right after
>boot as it scans the disk for about 10 minutes or more.

Re: Slow Virtual PC & Win XP Home on iMac G5

Sent: 05/18/2009
From: Fred Horvat <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

MS used to (or still may have the support page somewhere) that dealt with
this and VPC. There are a few things to do inside Windows and there are a
few things you can tweak in VPC also like turning off USB if you are not
using it and turning off running Windows Apps in the Dock and what not. I
did all these in Windows and VPC and it does help. I have a Dual G5 2.0ghz
and XP Pro is usable.

On 5/18/09 1:18 PM, in article
(email address - cut out), "Michael Vilain"
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

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> In article <(email address - cut out)absDaxw>,
> (email address - cut out) wrote:
>
>> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
>> Processor: Power PC
>>
>> I have VPC 7.0.3 "walking" Windows XP Home in my G5, which has 2gh processor
>> and 1.5gb memory (boosted from 512mb) and and I've set PC memory at the
>> maximum of 512mb. I've ditched just about app I can think of to make it run
>> reasonably but "no go".
>>
>> Has anybody out there got any ideas for running it reasonably fast?
>
> Go into the help pages of VPC. There are some recommendations on making
> XP faster, like turning off the extra graphics so that it looks like NT
> 3.5. Also, any virus scanner will drag your system down right after
> boot as it scans the disk for about 10 minutes or more.

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