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I lost track of where I was in this thread, I already answered about AVG, sorry. <g> >I now have AVG free installed, as well as adaware. I also >run Intego VirusBarrier X4 under OSX.4.4 so I hope I'll be >OK for the few times when I need to use Windoze. Sounds like you're pretty protected...

You wont be able to install a Dell OEM Windows XP in a VM, new one or not. (It's locked to a Dell BIOS.)

While you should do defrag in a guest OS unless you are going to compact the disk, chkdsk definitely makes sense in a guest, especially if you get that corrupt message. That particular corrupt message is usually caused by VPC not being able to write to the disk properly at some time in the...

AVG (Free edition) works quite well in a VPC VM, that's what I use. - Bob Comer

SP2 means "Service Pack 2" It's basically an update kind of like OSX 10.3 to 10.4, only it's just a download. (a rather larger one -- 272M.) It probably doesn't include it as VPC 6.1 is older than SP2, you'll either have to get it on CD or download it. That said, if you are having no...

AVG runs all the time, and it usually scans once a day for things that it doesn't catch live. The free version of Adaware doesn't run live, you need to do scans farily frequently. If you want something that works all the time, the paid for version of Adaware does that. I really don't know how...

AVG (the freeware version) has no problems running in a VPC VM. Another one that works pretty well is Avast!. I really suggest you run some antivirus app, but I wouldn't recommecnt McAfee or Norton, they are a bit heavy for a VM. Adaware is a decent antispyware app. - Bob Comer

Does your PC at home and at school have different processors? It sounds like the virtual machine may have been built with a specific processor oriented kernel, to fix it you'd need to switch to another kernel. (or install a fresh version at home.) - Bob Comer

It's easy to simulate less memory, as you can allocate how much you want, but simulating a slower processor is a lot harder to do and almost impossible to make it exactly the same. Virtual PC virtualizes the host PC's processor, so anything that's purely processor oriented is going to execute...