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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
 
 

Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 documentation

 
 

Today I sat down and started to configure my new test environments which are hosted on Microsoft Virtual PCs. I wanted to refresh myself on some of the advanced features and hit Google, Microsoft and MSDN in search of the VPC user documentation that I had found about a year ago and then proceeded to lose. Long story short, don't go looking on the Web for the official user manual for Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, it's under your nose. A MS kb article reminded me of the painful unobvious that I learned once before:

"In a default installation of Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, the documentation that is included with Virtual PC is located in the following folder on the hard disk of the host PC: Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual PC\Documentation"

Painfully unobvious because there are no shortcuts from Start menu to this documentation (which is where I started my search).

In my quest for documenation I ran into the following useful MS VPC 2004 links too:

The Official Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 site is here.

A MSDN VPC Blog is here.

VPC Overview Presentations are here.