[Ti] VPC on my Powerbook

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Try pressing  Command then move your mouse to windows pane..

nevertheless, VPC  6 would be struggling to support  win xp..  you  are 
better off with  98SE. until  VPC  7 is out in full blast
good luck
On Oct 8, 2004, at 6:25 PM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

>
> I have running VPC since 1.0 on my Macs.  I have VPC 6.0 on my 15" 
> Al-book under 10.3.5, running Windows XP for about one year.
>
> Now I have something very strange: when Windows XP starts up, the 
> final (normal XP screen) has a message balloon that says my "monitor 
> resolution is low, click this button to change it".
>
> But I cannot click on anything or do anything (except restart which I 
> have done 100X and I get back to this same place each time).
>
> The Mac cursor seems to be separated now from the VPC cursor.
>
> VPC thinks that the VPC Additions have not been installed (the little 
> icon is grey).
>
> If I try to install them, it says you already have them installed do 
> you want to replace them?
> Which I cannot do because I have no cursor control.
>
> I seem to be in a loop from which I cannot escape.
>
> There seems no way in Windows in VPC to force the VPC to start up from 
> the Windows XP install CD.
>
> My friend tells me that on a real PC you can instruct the BIOS to 
> start from a CD, but no option seems to exist once Windows is running.
>
> So not only cannot I escape from the loop, I cannot do anything to 
> repair or reinstall.
>
> Has anyone reading this got any idea of how to resolve this issue ?
>
> Creating a new PC is one way forward, as a blank disk seems to provide 
> the option of booting from the Windows XP install CD.  But then I have 
> to go through that long and agonizing WindowsUpdate process to update 
> all the software, and downloading Acrobat Reader, and all the other 
> programs and utilities that are already on the current C: drive....
>
> ANY ideas or comments would be very welcome, so that my Powerbook is 
> functional for all environments.
>
> I am sure I had never had any issues like this with Windows 98.
>
> regards,  Trevor
>
>
>
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