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The blog deals mostly with problems and their respective solutions that I find on day to day basis at my current workplace. Most of the issues so far deal specifically with Virtualization (mostly Microsoft related), 64-bit migration, and Windows 2003 issues. Many of the problems I have faced in various projects have been solved by reading someone else's blog. This is an effort to pay back and hopefully someone will be able to solve some of their problems by reading something within these pages.

The Vista Story...

Following on my previous post, I have finished installing Vista on Paralles.  There were various things I had to do to succesully finish the upgrade:

  • Expand the size of my virtual disk to at least 15 GB.  The Vista installer will expand various files and needs this space
  • Increase the memory size of the VM to 512
  • Upgrade to the latest version of Parallels and use the menu that allows Vista in believing that the machine is OK to install Vista:

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First off, all my applications worked after the upgrade, I was very impressed about this fact.  On the other hand (I don't know if this is a Vista or Parallels issue), things are kind of slow.  Windows XP running with 256 MB of RAM ran a lot faster than Vista with 512 MB of RAM.  It seems like my CPU usage is higher when using Vista under Parallels.

These issues have me revert to Windows XP, which I will keep using until an upgrade for either Vista or Parallels that address this issue is released. 

Published Mar 05 2007, 03:07 PM by Csaborio
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Isanabria said:

Check the task manager in Vista, vista by default installs a lot of backgruond tasks.
For example: Defrag disk every Wed
Check for Windows Update every day,

I don't know why, but the first days running Vista the Task Scheduler will get in your way.
It gets better with time.
March 7, 2007 7:08 PM

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