With Windows 7 seemingly gaining more and more popularity, a question some people may have is how legacy games will work in the new OS. The solution to this may be as simple as using a virtual machine (ala Microsoft Virtual PC) to run the games. While Virtual PC does not support hardware acceleration, you can see that it runs the FPS Quake 2 quite well using...

I have written several tips in the past about how useful virtual machines (VMs) are. My tool of choice is Microsoft’s offering, Virtual PC 2007. One big thing is lacks, however, is the ability to resize a virtual hard drive (VHD file). Since I deploy a lot of demo and training environments via VMs, this functionality is critical. Thanks to the free tool,...