I installed Virtual Pc 5.2 for windows. Now i installed Win 2003 Server fine on Virtual Pc, but as you all know windows 2003 server has the security feature that when you log in you have to press Crt+Alt+Del, now when i do that my Windows Task Manager for my backround OS(Win Xp) pops up. Does anyone know something i can do to work around this? Thanks in advance guys

Pretty sure I saw a setting in VPC for what to do with the ctrl-alt-del. You might have to run it in full screen. I was running beos in it and had to use c,a,d do get it to run so I know it can be done.

Paste the below in notepad and save it as "Disabe CAD.reg". Then click the file to merge it into the registry. Hope this helps, Sandman Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system] "disablecad"=dword:00000001

Whoa. Sandman, what the heck are you telling him to do that for? Wow, some of the posts in here just kill me. Talk about using a sledge hammer to kill a fly. Rj, if you read the documentation on Virtual PC, you'll see that the keyboard shortcut to send Ctrl-Alt-Del to the virtual machine is the right Alt key and the Delete key. This works in Full Screen or Windowed mode as long as you are focused on the virtual machine. I wouldn't follow Sandmans advice on this one. Good luck. Glen

If he runs the above reg file on the guest OS (WinS2k3) Rj won't be required to press ctr+alt+delete at bootup. You can also open the taskmanger (in either OS) by pressing ctrl+shift+esc. I will admit I did overlook the simple answer, my mistake. Now Rj can either disable it completely or use r-alt+del. Nothing wrong with choices :) If you did use the above reg file but changed your mind just change dword:00000001 to dword:00000000. Then run the file again to set things back to their defaults. Hope this helps, Sandman

All I'm saying is that on a Windows 2003 system, I wouldn't want that function disabled. I think with that OS you'd want to leave that security feature in place. But you are correct that it is one way of doing it.