Perhaps of interest if not for amusement I note that VPC 2007
allocates as its default 128MB of RAM when creating a new XP system
compared to 512MB for Vista and 64MB for Win98.

I suppose that shouldn't surprise me, as I've thought defaults for earlier
systems were a bit conservative - the 64MB for 98 a case in point. In
keeping with the era I suppose, but I don't see why they don't update it.
Maybe there's no need, and I suppose they're sticking to what was the
officially recommended minimum, but it seems a bit pedantic.

I really must get more RAM. I really must get a new machine, not just with
more RAM - and more slots - but with a multicore processor. Even so, I have
tonight implemented the Start /Low dodge in an attempt to get VPC to run
fast but not completely tie up the CPU, and I was thinking of installing the
XP x64 trial I still have, and which still works - but you can't run 64-bit
systems in VPC, it comes drifting back to me (possibly on a cloud?).

VPC does seem to work okay in W7 - as I expect you know - but for the
display issue I mentioned. Every time you move from the host to the guest -
and click - the display in the VPC window blacks out, momentarily, sometimes
requiring the likes of clicking the guest Start Button or, better, Show
Desktop - to get it to redraw; though at one point - when installing O2K in
either Win 98 or 2000 - the Product Key screen remained behind subsequent
installation screens - so that at various points prior to the next restart
the User Info/Product Key screen would reappear!

I do like Libraries.

Shane