Tuesday, November 3, 2009

VirtualPC wizard goes off-screen

Every now and then, when switching from an extended-monitor environment to a single-display, you end up with windows opening off-screen. Easy enough to move those: Alt-Tab to the offending window, click Alt-Space (this opens the window's System menu), click M, and then use the arrow buttons or the mouse to move the window back into view.

Microsoft Virtual PC decided to do something like this on Vista, but this time it's on the "New Virtual Machine Wizard" window. I found you can't do Alt-Space on wizards, because there's no System menu on them. The Virtual PC Guy's Blog saved the day: edit the options file %appdata%\Microsoft\Virtual PC\Options.xml, and change the coordinates in the <new_pc> element.

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