Quote Originally Posted by stanav View Post
I tried it on an Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 (2.66GHz) + 3.0 GB RAM + Win7 Ultimate. It took nearly 3 minutes to finish loading (from the time the exe was launch until it's ready). Tooltips takes 5 seconds to show and doesn't close when the mouse is moved out. Clicking on any menu (Application, Places, Systems...) takes 3 to 8 seconds for the menu to show up. The menu stays open for minutes even though the mouse pointer has been moved away from it.... The lag is very serious that make me feel like the OS is crashing. It's nowhere to be compared with a naive installation.
it sounds like one of your issues was you never updated the video card driver. Those were graphical glitches. However i was using it on a quad-core amd and that may have reduced any lag issues for me. I seem to recall it had an option to take over one of your cores, but maybe not. I've used so many virtual installs, i can't keep them straight any more.

Having used parallels for mac to run windows software, i can attest that the first launch of that was about two minutes as well, and this is the best one i've used in any os. my virtual pc experience in windows was downright pathetic.