Show Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Console

By Marcello Tonarelli

My Virtual PC console will not appear on the screen any longer. It appears
minimized in the tray in the bottom right hand corner but when I right click
it and select “show virtual PC console” it does not appear. I do see
“Virtual PC console” on my taskbar but I cannot see the console on my
screen. When I right click, both restore and maximize are greyed out.

Maybe the window is set to display itself out of the visible screen.

Take a look at the file:

C:\Documents and Settings\__Name_Of_Your_Windows_Account__\Application
Data\Microsoft\Virtual PC\Options.xml

and make sure that the values for the <console> section are reasonable.

For example:

<console>
<height type=”integer”>575</height>
<left_position type=”integer”>0</left_position>
<top_position type=”integer”>0</top_position>
<visible type=”boolean”>true</visible>
<width type=”integer”>359</width>
</console>

Don’t forget to backup this file first if you want to edit it.

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