Large black blocks appear in a shared Virtual PC session in Live Meeting 2005 (894654)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office Live Meeting

SYMPTOMS

If you run Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005 in a Microsoft Virtual PC environment where you share an active Virtual PC session, you may see large black blocks appear around the pointer. These large black blocks may obscure parts of the screen.

CAUSE

This issue may occur if the hardware acceleration is set too high on your computer.

WORKAROUND

To work this issue, reduce the hardware acceleration on your computer. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Appearance and Themes, and then click Change the screen resolution.
  2. On the Settings tab, click Advanced.
  3. On the Troubleshoot tab, move the Hardware acceleration slider one mark to the left to reduce the hardware acceleration on your computer, and then click OK.
  4. Click OK to close the Display Properties dialog box.

MORE INFORMATION

To improve the performance of the mouse and the pointer in a Virtual PC session, click Install or Update Virtual Machine Additions on the Action menu.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:3/8/2005
Keywords:kbdisplay kbtshoot kbprb KB894654 kbAudEndUser
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