2008年7月28日星期一

VirtualPC Console Not Displaying

VirtualPC Console Not Displaying

For the past several weeks, I've had a problem with VirtualPC. Whenever I started the program, I would see it running in the taskbar, but the console itself would not show up on the screen. Luckily, I could still start all of my VPC images using the context menu of the task item.

Today, I finally looked for a cause, and found it.

VPC stored it's configuration in the following file:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Virtual PC\Options.xml


Within that XML file, I found the following node:





246
4294935296
4294935296
true
359


449
329


727
184




Interesting to see the values that were being used for "left_position" and "top_position"...

4,294,935,296 = 0xFFFF8300

Expressed as a 32-bit signed integer, this is the same as -32,000. Doesn't tell me anything specific, but I found it interesting nonetheless.

Resetting these to 0 fixed the issue.

Posted by Jason Follas at 5/14/2007 02:31:00 PM

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