Vista - Tab and escape not working in Virtual PC?

In Virtual PC, my TAB and Escape keys no longer work. Tried rebooting
both the Virtual PC and the host but no effect.

Has anyone seen this problem or found a way to fix it?

TIA,
Andomar

"Andomar" <nothing@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Presumably, by "Virtual PC" you mean one of your virtual machines...?

1) What is the host OS?

2) What is the guest OS?

3) Assuming it's Windows of some sort, have you re-installed the
Additions...?

4) How much RAM does the host have?

5) How much of it have you assigned to the guest?

6) Does this happen in all virtual machines or only one?


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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

Host OS = Windows 7
Guest OS = Windows XP
Additions removed and reinstalled, didn't help
Host has 4GB RAM, guest has 512MB RAM and a big pagefile
I have only one virtual machine, and the problem appeared recently
Tab and escape work fine on the host

Any tips appreciated

-Andomar

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:58:56 +0100, Mark Rae [MVP]
<mark@xxxxxx> wrote:

"Andomar" <nothing@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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[please don't top-post]
1) When the guest is running, do the Tab and Escape keys continue to work in
the host?

2) Launch Notepad in the guest, hold down the left Alt key and (on the
number pad) type 0009 - does that produce a tab in Notepad...?


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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

> 1) When the guest is running, do the Tab and Escape keys continue toYes, tab on the host always works.
The problem appears to have vanished today, both tab and left-alt-0009
work.

Thanks for your reply, I'll post back when it reoccurs!

=Andoamr

Hi,

I've got exactly the same problem here too - Windows 7 x64 host, Windows XP
32bit guest. Host is 8gb and guest is 2gb.

Mike

"Andomar" wrote:

Same problem here.

Windows 7 @ Host, Windows 2003 and W XP @ guest

Any tips ??

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Erick Gonzales

If you are running into this issue on Vista and Windows 7 you can get the TAB key back by creating a software allow policy. Go to administrative tools, local security policy, Software Restriction Policies, Additional Rules. Create a new rule for %appdata%\microsoft\vritual pc\vpckeyboard.dll and set it to Unrestricted. Restart Virtual PC.

If the variable doesn't work, try using an explicit path i.e. c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\microsoft\virtualpc\vpckeyboard.dll



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