Vista - Virtual PC running XP is too slow

I have a 2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 processor, and it is maxed out as soon as I
start XP through Virutal PC on Vista Ultimate. How can I get XP to run
smoothly?

add memory to it.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.commikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"reductant" <reductant@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:420ADD9F-53A5-4E4E-A6DA-5FF0F7C0596F@microsoft.com...
I have a 2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 processor, and it is maxed out as soon as I
start XP through Virutal PC on Vista Ultimate. How can I get XP to run
smoothly?

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:24:08 -0800, reductant
<reductant@discussions.microsoft.com> spake thusly:

>I have a 2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 processor, and it is maxed out as soon as I
>start XP through Virutal PC on Vista Ultimate. How can I get XP to run
>smoothly?

Got RAM?
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I have 1 GB, but it was at 50-60% use. I guess I can apportion more than 128
MB to the VPC.

"Scott" wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:24:08 -0800, reductant
> <reductant@discussions.microsoft.com> spake thusly:
>
> >I have a 2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 processor, and it is maxed out as soon as I
> >start XP through Virutal PC on Vista Ultimate. How can I get XP to run
> >smoothly?
>
> Got RAM?
> --
> Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
> be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
>

Even in a virtual setting I use 384 meg of RAM.

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"reductant" <reductant@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:909A0EEB-C1A6-43D8-ABC6-122F325A0983@microsoft.com...
>I have 1 GB, but it was at 50-60% use. I guess I can apportion more than
>128
> MB to the VPC.
>
> "Scott" wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:24:08 -0800, reductant
>> <reductant@discussions.microsoft.com> spake thusly:
>>
>> >I have a 2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 processor, and it is maxed out as soon as I
>> >start XP through Virutal PC on Vista Ultimate. How can I get XP to run
>> >smoothly?
>>
>> Got RAM?
>> --
>> Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com
>>
>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
>> be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
>>

I allocate 192MB to XP Pro within VPC, and it runs just fine. I have 2GB on
the host system though.

JW


"reductant" <reductant@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:909A0EEB-C1A6-43D8-ABC6-122F325A0983@microsoft.com...
>I have 1 GB, but it was at 50-60% use. I guess I can apportion more than
>128
> MB to the VPC.
>
> "Scott" wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:24:08 -0800, reductant
>> <reductant@discussions.microsoft.com> spake thusly:
>>
>> >I have a 2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 processor, and it is maxed out as soon as I
>> >start XP through Virutal PC on Vista Ultimate. How can I get XP to run
>> >smoothly?
>>
>> Got RAM?
>> --
>> Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com
>>
>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
>> be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
>>

In message <420ADD9F-53A5-4E4E-A6DA-5FF0F7C0596F@microsoft.com>
reductant <reductant@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have a 2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 processor, and it is maxed out as soon as I
>start XP through Virutal PC on Vista Ultimate. How can I get XP to run
>smoothly?

Did you install the VMAdditions?
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