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color with virtual pc additions

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 07/09/2008
From: plaguebearer
Message:

Hi, I installed VP2007 on Vista Host with XP home as guest. When I install
the virtual pc additions the colors get messed up (they go down to 4bit-- no
other options). How can I get the regular colors back & keep the additions?

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RE: color with virtual pc additions

Sent: 07/10/2008
From: plaguebearer
Message:

Ok. Not a fix, but this worked: I uninstalled VPC2007sp1 and installed
VPC2007 regular, then the additions.

"plaguebearer" wrote:

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> Hi, I installed VP2007 on Vista Host with XP home as guest. When I install
> the virtual pc additions the colors get messed up (they go down to 4bit-- no
> other options). How can I get the regular colors back & keep the additions?

RE: color with virtual pc additions

Sent: 07/22/2008
From: KCTraveler
Message:

I have experianced the excat same problem when installing the Additions with
VPC 2007 SP1. Host is Vista Ultimiate, Guest is Win XP Pro. Anyone else
come accross this?

"plaguebearer" wrote:

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Re: color with virtual pc additions

Sent: 07/22/2008
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

>"plaguebearer" wrote:

Yes, I tried installing VS2005 a while ago on an XP Pro SP2 host with
an XP Pro guest and all was well with the guest screen colors until I
installed the additions (VS2005) when the colors dropped down to 4
bits and the resolution to someting ridiculously low.

Uninstall the additions and all was fine, except of course for the
missing mouse integration etc.

Then I installed the VPC2007 additions instead, and these worked fine
while running under VS2005. No more any color dept issue...

Go figure....

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>
>> Hi, I installed VP2007 on Vista Host with XP home as guest. When I install
>> the virtual pc additions the colors get messed up (they go down to 4bit-- no
>> other options). How can I get the regular colors back & keep the additions?
>I have experianced the excat same problem when installing the Additions with
>VPC 2007 SP1. Host is Vista Ultimiate, Guest is Win XP Pro. Anyone else
>come accross this?
>

RE: color with virtual pc additions

Sent: 10/04/2008
From: "DogHeHe"<(email address - cut out)>
Message:

I was able to fix the color problem by simply uninstalling the display driver, and then rebooting.

Display Properties > Setting Tab > Click Advanced > Click the Drivers Tab > Then Click to Uninstall

It will ask to reboot... That's what worked for me.

Hope this helps.

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Re: color with virtual pc additions

Sent: 11/09/2008
From: LeNwAr <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Hi guys. I've been having this problem as well. I have Vista Ultimate
x64, and I installed XP Pro 32 original as a guest in the Virtual
Machine. Not SP2 or anything like that. As a final act of desperation I
decided to try updating my XP guest to SP2, and voila! Straight after
the reboot I had full control of my colour and resolution settings.
Seems to be using the same video drivers, so I believe it may have had
something to do with the default monitor it was using. So if you haven't
tried this yet, give it a go and let us all know the result.

--
LeNwAr

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