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plaguebearer

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Jul 9, 2008, 5:39:01 PM7/9/08
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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?

plaguebearer

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Jul 10, 2008, 10:39:01 AM7/10/08
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Ok. Not a fix, but this worked: I uninstalled VPC2007sp1 and installed
VPC2007 regular, then the additions.

KCTraveler

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Jul 22, 2008, 3:42:01 PM7/22/08
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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?

Bo Berglund

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Jul 22, 2008, 5:14:10 PM7/22/08
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>"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?

>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?
>

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....

DogHeHe

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Oct 4, 2008, 7:36:36 PM10/4/08
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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 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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LeNwAr

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Nov 9, 2008, 6:58:07 PM11/9/08
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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.


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LeNwAr

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