Recent content by SteveCh

And how does one shut off that gesture?

I found out what was happening to the original problem, at least with the touchpad. Moving a finger in from the immediate right hand edge toward the centre brings up the side bar (irrespective of where the cursor actually is). I just avoid that part of the touchpad now. Still happens...

As I am having problems with USB and getting my workfiles onto my guest machine I thought I could load them onto my host then access them via file sharing. I have set up the VMware player with the location of a shared directory on the host but I cannot see that on my guest XP desktop. Can...

USB device is recognised by VMware when plugged in and shows on the staus bar. Shows it is active in the settings section. But it does not appear in My Computer on the guest OS.

I have read that VMware may have problems with USB3 ports. Unfortunately all my ports are USB3. Is this terminal?

I have XP pro running as a guest on a Windows 8 PC. I now want to get onto the internet wirelessly to download some applications and also get the USB working to download work files onto XP. How do I do these two tasks?

I'm new to Windows 8 and have discovered an annoying activity where the right hand side bar appears when I am moving the cursor elsewhere on the screen and the cursor jumps to the right hand side of the screen. Trying to move the cursor away proves difficult but it does eventually. I am using...

Hi all, thanks for your comments. I have been playing with VMware Player and running my legacy software under Windows 7. From comments on here I will probably go with Windows 8. I note that there is a version update coming soon so may wait until that arrives.

Well, I've had an IT expert (my son-in-law who was visiting this weekend) look at this and he has got VMware Player working great with my USB debug hardware, so that seems to have sorted that. He uses VMware a lot. Thanks for all your advice. I can now go ahead and order up my new laptop with Win 8.

So if Hyper-V will not support my USB device what othe VM software will? Alex, I note what you say but isn't VMware Player a free cut down version of workstation? I am trying Virtual Box on my wifes Windows 7 laptop but have not got the USB device to be recognised yet. So I'll maybe try VMware...

Hi, I'm new to this forum and also new to having to decide about operating systems. I am a microcontroller software developer likely to run some legacy software under a VM (I have a thread going on that forum). I use Windows Explorer to move my files around, Calculator, even the command prompt...

I actually mean neither of these! I develope software for microcontrollers and the development software uses a proprietary USB programmer. the drivers for which are usually loaded during part of the development software installation process (under XP). It is not seen by the OS as a drive, just...

One thing I do need for my legacy software is to have access to a USB device. Will Hyper-V support USB?

Hi Dave, I'm looking at buying a whole new machine so an upgrade is not on the cards. I'll get it preinstalled.

Thanks Kari. As things run under a virtual machine do I need to think about a faster processor. I started looking at i3 (Ivy bridge) processors but now wonder about an i5. As a separate question is Windows 8 actually any better the 7. I have heard that a lot of people don't like it. If I decide...