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redraw issues
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Redraw issues in Windows environments often manifest as screen refresh problems, black rectangles, missing icons, or slow rendering during mouse movement or window switching. These problems are commonly reported in virtual machine scenarios, such as running an XP guest on a Windows 7 host with Virtual PC, where integration features are disabled. They also occur when using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to older Windows 2000 Terminal Servers from newer Windows builds, leading to black screens after minimizing and random disconnects. Troubleshooting typically involves checking display drivers, RDP settings, or integration components.
I'm running a Win7 Pro x64 host on a fast machine with 16GB of memory, so I'm not suspecting the host.
The guest VM is an XPsp3 with 3GB of memory assigned to it.
I'm using Win 7's Virtual PC (not "XP Mode", this was an old VM I brought along from my old PC) to run this VM. I don't have...
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I'm having a big problem with 7048 and RDP'ing into Windows 2000 Terminal Servers. The screen does not refresh after you minimize the screen. In other words, after you go back to it, it's black screen and you have to force a refresh to get parts of the screen to redraw.
Also, I get random...