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My computer is NOT a touch computer. Win 8.1 installed in guest OS Vmare Player. What does "limited touch support with 8 Touch Points" actually mean ? Link Removed

Host OS : Win 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit. Guest OS : Win 8.1 Preview installed in Vmare Player. I have MS Office 2007 Home and Student installed in my host OS. How do I access them in guest OS ? Do I have to install into Win 8.1 ? If yes, a silly question......how ? My MS Office 2007 is a...

Ok, originally i was trying to network two Windows 7 machines, a desktop and laptop. Now i've had total success with previous versions of Windows. Now after configuring the details of both machines like the Workgroup name and Ip addresses and etc. I had no luck. So to not be undone by this i...

I have been using Windows 8.1 ever since it became available. I am running it on a VM w/ 2GB RAM assigned. There are, certainly, (new) things in 8.1 which, people will like. Personally, I, still use 8.1 the same way I use Windows 8; i.e. still use an Applications windows @ the Taskbar...

Hi I decided to install 8.1 in a virtual machine setup. I see that there are a number of software packages that you can use to do this. So what are people using. I've never done this before, so I'll be learning as I go. If anyone has any advice or things to watch out for I'd appreciate any...

Windows 8.1 on a VM w/ just 2Gigs Ram is faster, snappier & sites in IE11 loading quicker than the Windows 8 host machine and IE10. Have, certainly, read heaps about 8.1 suggesting this sort of behavior can be expected Just might be the case, too... Cheers, Drew .1

Ok, basically heres where Im at. There are two USB's I have my eye on USB 1 - Read Speed 30MB/s :: Write Speed 10MB/s :: Storage Capasity 16GB USB 2 - Read Speed 3MB/s :: Write Speed 2MB/s :: Storage Capasity 32GB Keep in mind that I will be installing two operating systems on it, Ubuntu...

I am running Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro virtual machine. On a PC I can open Windows Explorer and select certain files within a folder with Ctrl-Click. Does anyone know the equivalent keyboard shortcut on a MacBook Pro? Thank you, Jonart

I have a Windows 7 64bit on BootCamp running on iMac. Usually I get the BSOD when running a virtual machine for Windows 2008 using VMWare Player 5. But still it happens sometimes without any any application running... Memory Dump attached...

Link Removed that's my grandma's puppy, buddy NOTE: the words censored out are NOT me trying to swear on the fourms i had some tourettes guy clips and they had bad words in the title, so i censored them out to aviod getting banned but on to the topic, i had a windows 2000 Vm in Virtual PC...

Yep, it's real While my previous report about the leaked Windows 8 “Blue” build was based on screenshots posted to a Polish tech enthusiast forum, I’ve since gotten my dirty little mitts on the build and have installed it to a virtual machine. Based on a...

I'm pretty sure anyone computer-savvy knows that Windows XP was built off of 2000, and that every mention of 2000 was removed. Well, as it turns out, there is one mention of 2000. While deleting system files (in a VM of course), a restore critical Windows files screen appeared, and said to...

my 16-bit clipper application software is installed on a dedicated win7-64 bit system-C drive. (CompA) the .exe file is TIMELOG.EXE (clipper 16 bit file). the folder name is TIME (since it is installed on a dedicated system, i do not need to run the software on CompA. CompA is networked to 8...

When ever i tried to play Star Wars Jedi Academy i always get this message, how to fix this problem? VM_Create on UI failed

Hi all, Basically, I have just created an XP Virtual Machine under my username for a PC. From what it looks like, I have no applications installed on this VM. However, if I log into another user from the same PC, I am able to access the applications that I need from their XP Virtual Machine...

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Hi, I am running windows 7 on my host machine, and also running virtualbox with windows xp. I have internet running on the host and the VM using the same LAN network (home network). But I have a netbios problem on XP even though I have netbios enabled in network connection properties. Even...

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Hi Guys, I have a fresh install of Windows 8 Pro on a new PC and have done for some weeks. On Friday i hit the shutdown option Update and Restart. On the Saturday (yesterday) I turned on my machine to greeted with the Windows 8 Logo then a blank screen and doesn't boot at all into Windows...