Issues Installing Virtual PC 2007 SP1

by Andy on June 5th, 2008

Upon attempt to install Service Pack 1 for Virtual PC 2007 on my Vista 64bit host, I experience an issue with an open process (Process ID: 3800 in my case) which prevented installation. This could not complete until I had terminated this process (even ‘ignore’ or reboot couldn’t bypass the issue).

As the process was not listed in Task Manager I downloaded Process Explorer by Sysinternals (now branded as Microsoft Sysinternals) and found that the process in question was Windows Explorer. Killing this process resulted in loosing my Vista Taskbar, however Alt+Tab allowed me to switch back into the SP1 installer and continue to completion. Reboot upon completion and I was back in business.

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