On 04/18/2017 05:35 PM, Dave Doe wrote:
In article , , philo
says...

On 04/17/2017 07:55 PM, Dave Doe wrote:
In article , ,
Roger Mills says...

I have a Virtual XP setup for running a few legacy programs which won't
run on W7-64bit. It's on a laptop running W7-PRO 64.

It's been ok for several years, but today it won't start. It puts up the
usual little window saying "Starting Virtual Machine" and the progress
marker starts moving to the right and when it's got about one third of
the way across after about 40 seconds, the window closes - and that's
that. No error messages or anything. At the point when it closes, I
would expect it to say "Starting integration functions" - or something
like that - but it doesn't.

I've re-booted numerous times to no avail. Malwarebytes doesn't find
anything amiss.

Anyone got any suggestions what to try next?

Go into Windows Update and see if you have KB2830477 installed.

If you have, remove it. And try VPC again.




That update is three years old, I would expect a more recent update to
be the possible problem.

It is, but it's known to cause problems with VPC.

If you have it onboard, and VPC isn't working, it's worth removing.

Google 'windows virtual pc and KB2830477' or 'windows virtual pc and
KB2830477 site:microsoft.com' - if ya don't believe me.

You'll probably see on the MS forums that MS supposedly pulled this
update - but I dunno, it still shows up on my W7 PC - and if I allow it
to install, it's bye bye VPC.




Hey, I'd do it...hope it works for the OP