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Old April 21st 17, 11:21 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Virtual XP won't start

Roger Mills wrote:
On 21/04/2017 10:23, Paul wrote:

Summary: Delete the .vsv and retry... You're deleting the
hiberfile when doing that, and Windows could (worst case)
need to tidy up on the next run, using CHKDSK.

Paul



Thanks. I'll have a close look at that.


In a way, this is like real physical machines. If you
hibernate WinXP over and over and over again... eventually
it'll fall over. Things like memory errors, even if the
background rate is low, can accumulate over time. and it's
not clear there is any recovery mechanism for hiberated
machines - short of truly shutting them down and
rebooting them properly.

The default setup when I tested just now, is the Settings
panel for Virtual PC defines "Power button = hibernate".
I changed from the default, selected "Shutdown" instead,
and the .vsv file can disappear at shutdown as a result.

To operate the machine, instead of using "logout" in the
Start menu, I've been using my old standby, the Alt-F4
hotkey sequence. As that offers the rest of the shutdown
options. You should also be able to get that from Task
Manager, if you wanted.

I'm surprised mine hasn't tipped over yet, I've been
having so much fun with it. Windows Updates... almost done.

Have fun,
Paul
 




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