Virtual PC driving me mad!

[durex]

On random occasions when Im using Microsoft Virtual PC, I cant for the life of me get my mouse/keyboard back so that I can control the host pc... when I move my mouse, it simply moves to the edge of the VPC window and I cant use it with the host pc... its driving me crazy...

Can someone tell me what the trick is to this?

Thanks!

[studguy1]

I assume you installed the " Virtual PC Additions" on the guest OS which allows mouse to move around and does bunch of other stuff too?

[durex]

Nah.. I got it figured out. I finally got a pop-up box saying that once youve placed your cursor inside the Virtual Machine window, the only way you can get it out again is by pressing the right Alt button... sure enough it did the trick.

Thanks

[studguy1]

If you install the Virtual PC additions you dont need do anything. The mouse moves in and out seamlessly.

[durex]

Yea... to bad VPC eats up all your resources so it takes 5 minutes just to open explorer... vmware smokes it....

[studguy1]

I am still using the Old Connectix Virtual PC 5.2 which IMO is still better & much faster than MS VPC 2004. You are right i found the new VPC to be very slow too., but the old one is faster than VMWare too.

[<SparTacuS>]

Thank God for that - I thought it was me.

I have been using the Connectix Virtual PC 5.2 for some time with no problems (VMWare just doesn't work properly for me). When I tried out the new MS version it sucked like a hoover. It was so slow I thought it had frozen.

Way to go Microsoft!