Andrew Huffman wrote :

> Hi, I'm having a drastic slowdown in performance with my
> VPC 6 running Win XP Pro (OS 9 & X). All applications
> that run take at least 30 seconds to open. If any of you
> have any idea why, just respond.

What machine are you running, and how much *physical* RAM is it fitted with?
Remember Virtual PC is only emulating a Pentium II machine so you can't
expect it to be very fast, especially if your machine is not too speedy
itself. But the amount of RAM is certainly an important point to check.


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Bernard Rey - Toulouse / France
MVP - Macintosh

"only emulating a Pentium II" shouldn't affect the speed,
although you're right about the RAM.

I've noticed a similarly slow response on my G4 iMac under
9.2.

It seems to be data access that is the source of the
slowdown. Once applications are running their speed is
acceptable but opening them up (and booting XP Pro) are
extraordinarily slow.

I still sometimes run a '95 VPC on the same iMac and that
doesn't seem to have that same slowdown at all.


>-----Original Message-----
>Andrew Huffman wrote :
>
>> Hi, I'm having a drastic slowdown in performance with my
>> VPC 6 running Win XP Pro (OS 9 & X). All applications
>> that run take at least 30 seconds to open. If any of
you
>> have any idea why, just respond.
>
>What machine are you running, and how much *physical* RAM
is it fitted with?
>Remember Virtual PC is only emulating a Pentium II
machine so you can't
>expect it to be very fast, especially if your machine is
not too speedy
>itself. But the amount of RAM is certainly an important
point to check.
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------------
>Please reply to the newsgroup, and within the same thread.
>Merci de répondre au groupe, et dans l'enfilade.
>
>--
>Bernard Rey - Toulouse / France
>MVP - Macintosh
>
>
>.
>

>-----Original Message-----
>Andrew Huffman wrote :
>
>> Hi, I'm having a drastic slowdown in performance with my
>> VPC 6 running Win XP Pro (OS 9 & X). All applications
>> that run take at least 30 seconds to open. If any of you
>> have any idea why, just respond.
>
>What machine are you running, and how much *physical* RAM
is it fitted with?
>Remember Virtual PC is only emulating a Pentium II machine
so you can't
>expect it to be very fast, especially if your machine is
not too speedy
>itself. But the amount of RAM is certainly an important
point to check.
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------------
>Please reply to the newsgroup, and within the same thread.
>Merci de répondre au groupe, et dans l'enfilade.
>
>--
>Bernard Rey - Toulouse / France
>MVP - Macintosh
>
>
I am running VPC on an 800MHz G4 Flat-Panel iMac with 1 GB
of RAM.

>-----Original Message-----
>"only emulating a Pentium II" shouldn't affect the speed,
>although you're right about the RAM.
>
>I've noticed a similarly slow response on my G4 iMac
under
>9.2.
>
>It seems to be data access that is the source of the
>slowdown. Once applications are running their speed is
>acceptable but opening them up (and booting XP Pro) are
>extraordinarily slow.
>
>I still sometimes run a '95 VPC on the same iMac and that
>doesn't seem to have that same slowdown at all.
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Andrew Huffman wrote :
>>
>>> Hi, I'm having a drastic slowdown in performance with
my
>>> VPC 6 running Win XP Pro (OS 9 & X). All applications
>>> that run take at least 30 seconds to open. If any of
>you
>>> have any idea why, just respond.
>>
>>What machine are you running, and how much *physical*
RAM
>is it fitted with?
>>Remember Virtual PC is only emulating a Pentium II
>machine so you can't
>>expect it to be very fast, especially if your machine is
>not too speedy
>>itself. But the amount of RAM is certainly an important
>point to check.
>>
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------
>>Please reply to the newsgroup, and within the same
thread.
>>Merci de répondre au groupe, et dans l'enfilade.
>>
>>--
>>Bernard Rey - Toulouse / France
>>MVP - Macintosh
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>
I have allocated 512 MB to virtual PC also.

I also have a brand new G4 Powerbook, with 640 MB RAM, of which 416
is allocated to VPC 6.1. Very slow performance opening everything;
apps, files, pages, whatever. Is there no solution to this one?

>>-----Original Message-----
>>"only emulating a Pentium II" shouldn't affect the speed,
>>although you're right about the RAM.
>>
>>I've noticed a similarly slow response on my G4 iMac
>under
>>9.2.
>>
>>It seems to be data access that is the source of the
>>slowdown. Once applications are running their speed is
>>acceptable but opening them up (and booting XP Pro) are
>>extraordinarily slow.
>>
>>I still sometimes run a '95 VPC on the same iMac and that
>>doesn't seem to have that same slowdown at all.
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>Andrew Huffman wrote :
>>>
>>>> Hi, I'm having a drastic slowdown in performance with
>my
>>>> VPC 6 running Win XP Pro (OS 9 & X). All applications
>>>> that run take at least 30 seconds to open. If any of
>>you
>>>> have any idea why, just respond.
>>>
>>>What machine are you running, and how much *physical*
>RAM
>>is it fitted with?
>>>Remember Virtual PC is only emulating a Pentium II
>>machine so you can't
>>>expect it to be very fast, especially if your machine is
>>not too speedy
>>>itself. But the amount of RAM is certainly an important
>>point to check.
>>>
>>>
>>>--------------------------------------------------------
-
>>>Please reply to the newsgroup, and within the same
>thread.
>>>Merci de répondre au groupe, et dans l'enfilade.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Bernard Rey - Toulouse / France
>>>MVP - Macintosh
>>>
>>>
>>>.
>>>
>>.
>>
>I have allocated 512 MB to virtual PC also.
>.
>

I have powerbook G4 and 1G RAM and same challenge. Virtual PC with xp pro, very slow and very frustrating.
I wish I had never gotten the mac.
DS