virtual machine

Updates Windows 7 to fix a problem in which the computer may stop responding or restart. This problem occurs if you put the computer into sleep or into hibernation while a virtual machine is running in Windows Virtual PC. More...

my system has 8GB of DDR2 800MHz RAM. I *thought* half of it had gone bad because speccy and task manager were telling me only 4GB were available. Cautiously, I left speccy open to monitor RMA usage while i play a RAM-whore of a game (minecraft). My RAM had gone down to 1MB and I thought...

I have decided to remove my Win 8 DP from Virtual Box to a separate partition I will be creating on my HD. I have found that the networking problems, both with my Win 8 DP (detailed here) and my Win 7 installation (my system is often getting confused by the VM network causing problems) is...

If you're thinking about taking the new Windows 8 Developers Preview for a test drive, you may consider watching this video. Dual booting Windows 7 with the Windows 8 Developers Preview is pretty straight forward and not unlike we've all done dual boot scenarios in the past. Some folks have...

I'm new here so not sure if this is the right place but am hoping someone can help me out. I bought what appeared to be a genuine Windows 7 Pro from Craiglist to save some money - it was shrinkwrap and had a COA outside. I installed this on a new laptop I got for my sister oversees. It installed...

I have seen this problem before in other threads but my problem is that my computer won't even start up now. I am running Parallels 6.0 on my Macbook Pro and I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed. When I downloaded the Service Pack 1 update, everything was fine until I tried to reboot and my...

hey guys i really look forward to help me with this issue. i have made a setup for mikrotik server on a virtual machine so i need to keep my computer on all the time and that was fine for 4 or 5 days then i start to wake up every morning to see that my computer on and stopped on user login...

Ever since I first got my Windows 7 machine, I have been able to run the XP mode virtual machine without problem. A few months ago, I started getting a message that the XP mode couldn't come up without integration problems, or something like that. I was able to dismiss the message and have WinXP...

Hi I have Windows 7 Home Premium, I can get Windows 7 Professional. I have an older machine, just retired with XP Pro. My hardly used Cannon 'Canoscan D1250U2F' scanner worked on XP Pro. Bought a new machine , installed Windows 7 Home Premium and could not find any 64 bit drivers...

New desktop to run virtually anything Microsoft is slipping its Hyper-V virtualization software into the forthcoming Windows 8, according to a report.… Source: Yahoo! News

There is no such thing as an entirely secure browser. Let's be realistic: You will always need a good portion of common sense and Internet smarts to avoid nasty attacks hijacks. However, if you are paranoid about security, there is one browser that will reliably protect you from virtually...

Hi, I hope this is the right forum for my little conundrum: I can't, after switching to 32-bit Windows 7, get my trusty, faithful Epson Perfection 640U to work. XP was fine, no problem, but it seems to me that Epson have (has?) abandoned this fine scanner as there is no 640U listed in the...

Hi guys, Ive seen various how tos on the interweb hinting at how you can adapt the Epson EPL-5900L printer to run on Win 7 64 bit. Id really appreciate some help if anyone could point me in the right direction of give me some tips. Im getting tired of loading up my XP Vm just to print...

Short answer: yes. Long answer: yes, but you may not see much real difference. Before explaining why, there is an important contraindication to be aware of: if you use any 16-bit Windows applications or DOS applications, you'll have to either stick with 32-bit Windows, or run those applications...

I can't install Huawei E173 under Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit Service Pack 1. I get the following message: Link Removed "Upravljački program nije pronađen" in the screenshot means "Driver not found". I have also tried connecting the modem while connected to the Internet, to no avail. I had...

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...

ARM + Direct Computing = Google TV Like Windows TV With Windows 8. With Microsoft’s commitment to ARM they finally started talking about Windows 8. A while back there was a huge dump of slides that leaked regarding Windows 8. One of the features listed in the slides was “Instant On”, detailed as...

I have a strange problem. I lose access to the internet via certain programs only at random times throughout the day and for time spans ranging from a few seconds to several hours. Firefox, IE, Chrome, Live Messenger, Windows Update lose their connections. Meanwhile Outlook, certain other...

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show Link Removed. In this episode, Steve and Wade are joined by both Corey Sanders—a PM on the Windows Azure Fabric Controller team—and Cory Fowler—Canada’s only Windows Azure MVP—as...