HI John, Windows will still behave like a regular machine, despite the machine being virtual. Therefore, it can be infected by viruses. However, this will not affect the Mac for obvious reasons. Also, the machine is isolated from the Mac. Thus, Any principals that you applied to a regular Windows machine will still need to be applied with a virtual machine. It will behave just like Windows, to make a long story short. Some people recommend allocating half of the RAM that your Mac has installed to the virtual machine, but personally I prefer to experiment. Keep in mind that if you set the RAM allocation too high, memory swapping between the virtual machine and the Macintosh operating system may occur. And yes, JAWS can start up automatically when Windows launches just like any other Windows machine. You can choose to share some of the Mac folders with Windows and the other way around, though I prefer to keep them entirely separate. This is a personal preference, of course.
Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: [email protected] AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Nov 2, 2009, at 4:49 PM, John W. Carty wrote: > I'm exploring the purchase of my first mac but it appears I will > still need windows access so can anyone tell me if they are using > this fusion application with windows and can you have jaws installed > to speak automatically when windows is launched? > > Would I still need to run anti virus software under windows? > > Regularly clean the windows registry? > > What about windows updates? Do they still provide automatic prompts? > > How much memory should be allocated for fusion/windows when you > install it? > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
