How to ‘free’ the Mouse in Virtual PC 2007

Before you install the virtual PC tools in Windows XP when using the mouse it becomes locked into the virtual PC window.

To release it hold down the right Alt (often Alt Gr) and drag the mouse out of the Virtual PC window.

Posted by pete

17 Responses

  1. Abhishek says:
    January 25, 2009 at 7:31 am

    Yo!!..
    so simple, and I was banging my head on the keyboard!!!

    Reply
  2. Adrian says:
    February 18, 2010 at 8:59 pm

    Who ever posted this simple comment is a star, thank you.

    Reply
  3. Francisco Campos says:
    June 8, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    5 stars 🙂

    Reply
  4. Abhinav says:
    June 17, 2010 at 6:36 pm

    it worked…thx a lot..

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  5. Gaston says:
    August 24, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    Your are the BEST 🙂

    Reply
  6. Sam says:
    July 18, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    Thanks you!!!

    Reply
  7. Kiran says:
    August 12, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    Is there any standered settings that can make the mouse pointer move freely from Virtual PC and Local System

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  8. Kiran says:
    August 12, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    Hey I have got the solution for making the mouse pointer move freely from Virtual PC to the local System.

    Come out of the Virtual PC.

    Click Actions in the menu bar -> Click on Install or Update Virtual Machine Addons

    This will take the files from the existing installation only.

    This steps works

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  9. edgar says:
    September 15, 2011 at 2:38 pm

    thanks!

    Reply
  10. FEDB says:
    December 7, 2011 at 6:13 pm

    xD

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  11. Fred says:
    January 9, 2012 at 10:52 pm

    THANK U

    Reply
  12. Slow pow says:
    August 23, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    I am stupid. Thanks, it works for me.

    Reply
  13. Nelu says:
    January 10, 2013 at 1:47 pm

    Thank you, for your help

    Reply
  14. ram says:
    March 8, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    Thank you for your help whoever you are.

    Reply
  15. Greg says:
    August 6, 2014 at 9:05 pm

    awesome

    Reply
  16. Marcin says:
    March 6, 2015 at 11:23 am

    use windows key 🙂

    Reply
  17. FNT says:
    February 8, 2017 at 9:26 am

    Thx alot…alot lot helpful, just trying virtual pc in my old PC

    Reply

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