A View Inside My Head

Thanks for this tip. I would never have found this, saved me hours.

Perhaps the last time you closed your Virtual PC was from your extended/secondary monitor? Then Virtual PC will remember that secondary monitor location. In this case, when you see the program is running on task bar, but nowhere on your primary screen, you may want to try attach a secondary monitor, and see if your program is hiding there.

Nope, I don't use extended monitors, and only clone my screen when I need to project.

Because of the exact value of this X,Y coordinate, I'm discounting this as a bug.

This happened to me a while ago on my old laptop after a Windows Update. Another Windows Update fixed it. and then a third broke it again. I then replaced my laptop for a brand new IBM thinkpad. All was fine until a windows update. Then No VPC console!

This fixed it for me! Thanks

Brett

I wonder ....and I want to know how did you find the issue. Maybe you can give us a path....to follow and search for this kind of issues. Anyway...yau save alot of time for me to....because there was no remove option without the console...and I had to install and reinstall VPC anytime I changed the virtual machines.
Thanks!

Thanks! Yep - I had exactly the same issue, and this saved me tons of time. I noticed, the VPC Console would show up on my taskbar, but as described above, not on the screen. I do use an extended desktop config, but the program was clearly running to the left and above (not hiding where the monitor would have been). If I right clicked on the running taskbar item, and chose "move" or "size", my mouse would fly up to the top left of my main laptop screen.

I do believe some updates just ran themselves, so that may have done it?

Thanks again!

Donna

The program configuration file is normally the place to go look for anomalies like this. Coming from a Unix/Linux background, I was trying to locate the configuration file after finding it wasn't in the registry .... but I didn't know where Windows programs store any of their configuration. This helps me a) fix my virtual pc issue, and b) learn more about Windows and where it stores things like this.

Thank you SO MUCH. My problem was the New Virtual Machine wizard wouldn't appear after I went from a dual to single monitor setup. Slightly lower in the xml file it controls the new virtual pc window. Thanks for posting this because it was getting very frustrating trying to figure out how to access that screen.

Thanks Jason ... this tipo resolved my problem .... Bye

Brilliant. Never had an update happen, wonder how it changed. Oh well, it's fixed now. Thanks