Okay, so I managed to figure out how to increase the memory in the machine - you just can't do this while it is running. Now I have a new beef. The disks are "dynamically expanding". What happened to the good old days of giving it a gig or 2 and calling it good. There is an option to convert to a fixed size, but it told me that the 16 Gig of virtual space on the disk was not big enough to convert to a fixed size. Whaa??? The other option is to "reclaim zero space"... which is running but taking forever to complete. Before reclaiming the zero space, the disk was taking 6 Gig of real space, now it is only taking 5. I was thinking that 1 or 2 Gig would be more appropriate. Damn, I hate the way Microsoft jacked-up this product, when Connectix owned the Virtual PC things were much better... the disk space could be limited to a reasonable amount at least.

This is probably my fault for not changing Microsoft's outrageous default disk size before running the VPC... but then they probably wouldn't let me anyway.

 

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Austin Gilbert/Male/26-30. Lives in United States/Oklahoma/Tulsa/Midtown, speaks English. Spends 40% of daytime online. Uses a Fast (128k-512k) connection. And likes computer science/photography.
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Virtual PC is a disk hog
2004/11/01