A collection of VirtualPC speed tips

Jan 29, '04 09:34:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I run a design team with 15 iMacs that all have VirtualPC to run Access. While VPC is never going to be blazingly quick, I have picked up a few tricks that might make life easier! For speed concerns:

We have also found that if our network connection was cut whilst someone was in VPC, VPC would get itself into a situation where you could not log in and you would have to install Windows and all your apps again (which could take a good few hours to do). The solution I found today was to litterally replace the 4 gig Wndows drive file with that from another machine, and then relink the shortcuts (which takes a few minutes!). This gets you back up and running again much more quickly.

Also it would be good to hear if anyone else has any further suggestions, or if it is quicker using an old PC with Microsoft's Remote Desktop.

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