I mentioned in an earlier blog about getting more memory for my laptop in order to run Virtual PC. Well, it works well - my laptop is still responsive even running an XPE image in VPC. Problem is, when the VPC is backgrounded, it's responsiveness is roughly analogous to the reflexes of a frozen bag of 12-count shrimp. The solution? Keep the VPC in the foreground. It won't ever be as responsive as a real machine, but foregrounding it means it'll respond more like an iguana next to an air conditioner.

And I've heard from John Vorchak that Fedora Core 2 will run in a VPC - I'll have to try that later...