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Tips for speeding up XP Mode in Windows 7
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I've got a machine with 4 GB of RAM running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. Unfortunately I have to run Visual Studio in the XP Mode VPC, and it's quite the dog. Aside from giving the VPC more RAM (what's an optimal amount?) does anyone have any suggestions for speeding it up?
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Revisiting this question - the best thing that you can do for this is to run your VM off of a solid-state drive. Adding an SSD to my system (OCZ Vertex 3) dropped compilation times by 80%. The problem is that Visual Studio is very intense in disk ac…
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