"Big_Al" wrote in message
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I have vmware player 7.0 and have a whole list of machines,
XP,7,8.1,10TP,Mint17,Ubuntu.
All seem to run pretty good, windows 7 is pretty responsive, but 10TP just
seems to be sluggish as all get out.
I've got all the machines set with the same 4G memory and 2 processors and
video settings. The only variable I can
come up with is the OS itself.

I had VMP 6.0.4 installed on my Win7 HP x86 desktop, and installed Win10TP
x64 in it. It was fairly slow to start, but once it was up, I found it to be
almost as quick/responsive as my Win7 installation or Win8.1Pro x64 that I
have on my laptop. The problem I ran into was with the memory limitation of
x86. I originally assigned 1GB of RAM to the VM, and both OSs would run OK
for a while, then VM would start to bog down. I upped the VM usage to 1.5GB
and that helped some, but then after running both Win7 and Win10 for a
while, Win7 would bog down. Even after shutting down the VM, Win7 was still
sluggish until I rebooted. I think if I had a 64-bit OS as the host and more
RAM, it would have run quite well.

I ended up installing Win10 on a second HDD in my laptop, and selecting
either Win10 or Win8.1 at boot. That's a much smoother scenario for all OSs
involved :-) Overall, I like Win10, and am eager to see how it is in the
final release.
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SC Tom