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[ShadowFox]

Unfortunately I ran into a problem, it seems that Virtual PC 2004 is designed for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional editions, I have Windows XP Home edition. It informed of this upon install so I decided ahh I'll try it anyway.

Problem: Your networking capabilities go to the shitter, networks are not accessable and if you connect to the internet through another computer, you can no longer do that so long as the software is installed.

Solution: Uninstall Virtual PC 2004

Just thought I'd inform you all

[Visentinel]

you know thats is strange, very strange.

it shouldn't even let you install it but since it does i see no technical reason for it to not work, there is a way to get around your network problem !

1. Install VPC 2004 again
2. after its finished open up your networking and right click on your network card and choose properties, select the "Virtual Machine Network Services" and Uninstall it.
3. Repeat for all Network cards if you have more than one.

Reboot

You wont have networking but you will be able to use VPC2004 as normal, and don't sweat it VPC has Virtual Folders, after you install the VPC additions for a windows guest OS you can load in shared folders and they show up in the my computer of the guest OS looking exactly like a network shared drive.

In the occasion you choose Linux you can create a Virtual Hard disk that links into a real one, and that would allow you to have direct HDD access in the guest OS (be carefull !!!!), or you can use a program like WinISO or UltraISO to create cd images filled with the files you want the guest OS to have access to and simply load the images into the VPC CDrom.