[Virtualacorn-list] Virtual Acorn Setup Problem

[Dr Peter Young]

On 5 Nov 2008  Chris Newman <cvjazz at waitrose.com> wrote:

> In article <9cde59f94f.pnyoung at pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>,
>    Dr Peter Young <pnyoung at ormail.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 4 Nov 2008  Steve Joyce <Steve at joyces.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>> [snip]

>> [snip]

>> If the slowing is caused by another Windows process, this might help:

>> With VRPC not running, go to Program Files > VirtualRPC-*** > VAcfg,
>> and load it into, e.g. Notepad. Here you will find a line starting
>> ProcessorPriority. If this doesn't have = 3 after the word, change it
>> so it does. Save the file, and start VRPC.

>> I had appalling problems with slowness while Windows Defender was
>> doing its stuff, and this dodge sorted it. I think it's on the forum
>> somewhere, but I can't find it.

> A note of caution. I had a problem & tried setting the priority from 0 up to
> 3. Then RiscOS 6, which I have softloaded on top of VA, took about 20 minutes
> to load. Curiouser & curiouser....

Not here, with 4.02.

With best wishes,

Peter.

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