JonStonecash

I have recently upgraded my Dell D620 Latitude laptop from WinXP Pro (32-bit)
to Windows 7 RC (64-bit). I have a number of VirtualPC 2007 images that I use
for testing on various platforms and looking at beta software. I have
installed the 64-bit version of VirtualPC SP1. The images all work with the
exception of the mouse wheel within the virtual machine. I have tried this
out with WinXP Pro, Windows 7 RC, and Windows Server 2008 images. All are
32-bit and all exhibit the same behavior: a gentle rotation of the wheel does
nothing; a quick rotation of the wheel sometimes gets a scroll and sometimes
not. I regard this behavior as unusable as I tend to use the mouse wheel a
lot.

All of this worked just fine on WinXP. I have re-installed the Virtual
Machine Additions on all of the machines. The Windows 7 RC virtual image was
created after the upgrade to Windows 7 and the installation of the 64-bit
version of VirtualPC (just to isolate the possibility that I had corrupted
the images during the transition); the only software other than the 32-bit
Widnows 7 RC are the virtual machine additions. The behavior of the mouse
scroll wheel is the same as the other guest systems that I have tested.

I have googled, binged, and yahoo-ed. There are scattered mentions of this
problem (dating back to VPC 2004) but no solutions.

I am aware that I could start up one of these images and then use remote
desktop connections to get access to that image. I, in fact, do just that for
some development that I am doing; the mouse works just fine. This is
acceptable in this case because I spend hours at a time in the development
VM. These test environments are different in that I will bring up an image
for just a short time: minutes rather than hours. Adding the rdc step is much
more significant in these cases.

Does anyone have any idea of what to do next to get the scroll wheel to work?

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Jon Stonecash