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Something weird is triggering the low battery warning. I shut down windows and rebooted. Same warning.

ciamurra wrote:Something weird is triggering the low battery warning. I shut down windows and rebooted. Same warning.

well, can you switch to AC in the guest?

Haven't really used windows in several years. I looked in accessories\system tools\ but I didn't find a battery program. Found it in control panel. anyway, that shows correct info.

Thanks very much for all your help. I don't know where you are, but it's very late in NY. I'm checking out and going to bed.

I'm in PA. fix it later. night.

You're Welcome

edit: btw, you should go through all your posts and mark them as (Solved). edit the Title in the first message of each.

re-edit: don't forget to install the guest additions and extension pack to match your version of VB which I assume is 4.2.16

You must be kidding -- every single post?

btw, I assigned the guest 2 gb memory. I can still increase that, right? I opened windows and ran out of memory. The memory that I assign to the guest-- is that forever gone from the host? Or does it become available to the guest only when VB is running?

not each post. just the first on each thread. there's something like 4 or 5.

yes, the memory is only used while the guest is running. I'm not sure why you would run out of memory though. 2048 MB should be plenty for Windows XP.

That's what I tbought. once for each post.

On my old computer, there's 4 gb and I give 2 gb to VB. Yet it tells me that there's no memory left. Activity Monitor confirms that is the case in host as well. When I shut Quicken and Windows down, most of the memory for VB is restored.

what tells you there's no memory? on the Mac or in Windows?

the warning comes from windows.

that's odd because for about three years I had a real windows pc with only 512MB and eventually 1024MB and I never had an out of memory message.

I have to run but as far as issues with Windows XP that's not a VirtualBox issue and you'll have to do some searching online for out of memory errors etc.

I haven't been able to find a way to mark a thread closed.