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Technology Stocks : Windows 7 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PMS Witch who wrote (31)	5/16/2009 5:19:03 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152

Continuing investigation into Windows 7 Virtual Machine XP. . . While working in Virtual XP Windows Explorer, I right-clicked on the "C" drive and selected properties. It indicated 137GB free! That's odd. The VHD (Virtual Hard Drive) is in a 20GB volume with about 5GB free. Where does the extra 132GB come from? My husband suggested I copy a 100GB file to my Virtual XP drive. A file that large would be easy to locate. I followed his suggestion. During the copy, I used Windows 7 to monitor my disks. As the VHD filled, it would expand by 1GB increments. As it reached 5GB, Virtual XP continued to insist that well over 100GB remained available. Then the Virtual XP window lost colour. It turned grey and stopped responding. I closed it. When I tried to re-open Virtual XP, it wouldn't. My quick fix was to restore the VHD file from a backup. That did the trick. I'm left wondering where Virtual XP gets disk capacity values from. Are they generated randomly? Cheers, PW. P.S. I also tried out Bit Locker to Go on a USB flash drive. What a painful experience. Granted, my flash drive must be the slowest one ever made, so I can't blame Bit Locker totally. However, I can't imagine employees following company guidelines for data safety unless they're chained by both ankles. (Only by one ankle wouldn't be sufficient.) At least Windows 7 gives a warning that the process may take some time. It's like the dentist saying "You may experience some discomfort," an understatement.

To: PMS Witch who wrote (31)	5/19/2009 9:06:57 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152

Continuing investigation of Windows 7... A correction to earlier messages I submitted: I've been able to alter the screen resolutions in both Windows 98 and Windows 3.1 running in Windows 7 Virtual Machine. There are limits on the available choices. When colour depths increase, resolutions decrease. I was aiming for both high resolution and 32 bit colour; hence, I missed what was available. The pixels remain the same size. Changing resolutions changes window sizes. Cheers, PW.