Problem: I tried changing the network connection to NIC to confirm I was giving you the true picture. I lost my internet as mentioned but have also lost the toolbar at the top of the desktop now. So do not know how to get back to the network settings in XP Mode to change it back. I'm lost again.
Notice that the tutorial I linked in my last post shows how to install and enable integration on a Windows 7 virtual machine running on Virtual PC, but as XP Mode is just another Virtual PC machine, the procedure is exactly the same. Just follow the tutorial.
I do not know how I can do this now without the toolbar at the top of the desktop with the Tools menu.Have you installed the integration components? If so, are integration features enabled? (Windows Virtual PC Integration Features - Install, Enable, and Disable)
I do not want to have to start this process all over again. Is there some other way I can get to the Networks area to change it back to NAT which I think has caused the problem ?
Is your toolbar gone missing again?That's one thing I can not understand...
To fully be able to network XP Mode with the host / workgroup, you need to use the host's network controller and integration components have to be installed and enabled.
Kari
Yes I had the desktop Toolbar at the top and everything was working in that regard. But I think it was when I changed the network setting to the Realtek NIC it seemed to go wrong.
I was also playing with paint and trying to learn about saving images etc while I as waiting for you to post again and crossed out of it wrongly again. When I next saw the screen it was without the toolbar, and I do not know how to get it back. There should be a way around it as the toolbar was visible and working OK before. It is just a setting somewhere that needs to be changed back.
Can I get to XP Mode Network Settings another way ?
I have tried to take an image of my XP Mode desktop now but it will not include the small blue toolbar with only
Drawing pin image, Action, USB, Ctrl+Alt+Del minimize/maximize/close
There is a just whole lot of blue with Recycle bin, IE, Win Media Player in top left corner and
Start at bottom with the task bar empty, except for a few items in the bottom right corner.
I remember only having 2 choices in the box when I clicked the tools button, so Integration features must have been installed already, as I think this webpage says somewhere is automatic with XP Mode installation.
2. To Install Integration Components
NOTE: You would only have this option if you have not installed the Integration Components in this specific virtual machine yet. If you have, then you will have the option to either Enable Integration Features or Disable Integration Features instead.A) Click on Tools on the virtual machine menu bar, and click on Install Integration Components. (see screenshot below)
NOTE: You may need to press CTRL+ALT+Left Arrow to move the mouse pointer out of the virtual machine to click on the menu bar.
One more try. This is how to make a Virtual PC virtual machine (for instance XP Mode) and the host computer to see each other to share folders.
First, shut down (do not hibernate) XP Mode. Follow steps 4 and 5 in this post to learn how to change the default closing action of XP Mode.
When XP Mode is closed, change the network adapter to that of your host computer, Realtek you mentioned?
Run XP Mode. Do exactly as told in this tutorial to connect it to your network. The screenshots in the tutorial are not from XP Mode but the procedure is exactly the same.
Kari
I'm sorry Kari, I sense the frustration in your post. I have been trying to solve this for days.
Do you mean change the network adapter on the HOST PC WIN 7 to "Realtek.....", after XP Mode is closed ?When XP Mode is closed, change the network adapter to that of your host computer, Realtek you mentioned?
If this is so please tell me how to do this in Win 7 ?
I have 2 choices I know of for getting out of XP Mode. The X at the top right hibernates XP Mode.
On the Start menu, I have LOG Off button which I also think hibernates it.
Is there another way to close it down Please.
Kari both post links you have sent me require me to use the Tools drop down menu, in the top toolbar of XP Mode. But I do not have this toolbar anymore, unless this action above will get it back on the XP desktop.
HAH!Found part of the answer !!!
When I click fullscreen in XP Mode I loose the Toolbar at the top of the desktop. BUT when I exit fulscreen I get the Toolbar back. How could this be ??
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