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Virtual PC is a virtualization program that simulates a hardware environment using software. It is currently developed by Microsoft and intended for use on Windows.

Virtual PC is software that hosts virtual machines (which use software to simulate real hardware). It is designed for the Windows operating system, and is currently developed by Microsoft.

For Windows 7, there is a special version of Virtual PC called "Windows XP Mode" that can be used to run legacy software designed for Windows XP in a special compatibility environment. It is available free of charge for customers with qualifying versions of Windows 7.

Older versions of Virtual PC were released for the Mac OS, and allowed it to run Windows-based software under an virtualized Windows installation. They were chiefly developed and maintained by Connectix, before the software was acquired by Microsoft.

More information about the history and implementation of Virtual PC is available on Wikipedia.

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Where are the latest Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images?

Does anyone know where the latest Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images are? These ones expired 1st October 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en UPDATED…
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Testing DirectX applications in Virtual PC?

I would like to test my WPF applications using Windows Virtual PC under Windows 7. In my C# code, I'm checking the WPF tier and if it's less than 2, I disable a DirectX call. In order to test on Windows XP, I'd like to use Windows Virtual PC but it…
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Unique Virtual Machine

I am working on some method to protect my software with a license. Doing some wmi calls to uniquely distinguish computers and making sure there cannot be loaded multiple instances of the application. I came to think though when the application is…
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Determine if my PC supports HW Virtualization

How, in general, does one determine if a PC supports hardware virtualization? I use VirtualPC to set up parallel test environments and I'd enjoy a bit of a speed boost.
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Why are my auto-run applications acting weird on Vista?

The product we are working on allows the user to easily set it up to run automatically whenever the computer is started. This is helpful because the product is part of the basic work environment of most of our users. This feature was implemented not…
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Way to Alt-Tab through all applications in Virtual and Host PC

I am using VirtualPc 2007 more and more, the one annoyance is "Alt-Tab". What I want is to be able to use alt-tab to iterate through all of the applications in the host pc and virtual(s) as if they were one long list. Is there a setting or program…
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Windows Vista Virtual PC-image for Visual Studio-development minimized

Which features and services in Vista can you remove with nLite (or tool of choice) to make a Virtual PC-image of Vista as small as possible? The VPC must work with development in Visual Studio. A normal install of Vista today is like 12-14 GB, which…
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Echo %variable% shows %variable% in MS-DOS 6.22

I have a problem with my virtual PC running on MS-DOS 6.22. I need to use the variable Date, but I can't get it since whenever I try to echo a variable it shows %variable% instead. I tried this on Windows console: Set name=test echo %name% the…
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Sharing files with Windows CE virtual machine in Virtual PC?

How can I share a file with my virtualised Windows CE box if the HPC Factor WindowsCE Virtual PC images do not support the Virtual Machine Additions or the virtual network driver? I cannot mount a shared folder, since it requires the VM Additions…
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Code, Build and Run on seperate Machines. Posssible?

I know that I can code on one machine and have it build on a different machine (ie. a build server). Now I have also heard that you can have visual studio run a build on a virtual machine (i think it requires Virtual PC). Now my question is if…
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What's the difference between SysPrep and NewSid?

I'm setting up some Virtual PC images. I want to customize the machine with some pre-installed tools and then use this as a base for creating new machines. What's the best practice for prepping the machine for use? Should I use SysPrep or NewSid?…
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Detect when application is running in a VM environment

Looking for ideas on how to detect when our Windows application is running in one of the following VM environments. Some starter ideas for detection are in parentheses. There may be (much) better detection techniques - the starter ideas I've come up…
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Sharing Files between VM and Host using Virtual PC 2007

I know that I can share files using Shared Folders in Virtual PC, but this method seems to have pretty poor performance. Is there another method to share files that provides better performance? (Besides using something other than Virtual PC)
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Quicker way to create duplicate Virtual PC images?

I use Virtual PC to create fresh environments for testing my installer. But I must be doing something wrong because a VPC image with Vista or XP inside is taking around 15GB of disk space (that includes VS2005/S2008 installed in them). To create a…
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Connecting to SQL server from Virtual PC

I have VS 2008 and SQL Server 2005 Developer edition installed on my desktop. I have a instance of XP running in Virtual PC and want to connect to the dev instance. I am logged on as a domain user on both the desktop and the Virtual instance of…
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