What does the "virtualization" option do in Task Manager????

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Click on a process, I get a virtualization option. What does it do?

As per usual, the Vista "Help And Support" is not helpful, nor does it
give me any support....
 
Click on a process, I get a virtualization option. What does it do?

As per usual, the Vista "Help And Support" is not helpful, nor does it
give me any support....
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What processor do you have? It's greyed out for me...

Perhaps you have one of the latest and greatest AMDs with virtualization
stuff built-in?
 
Chupacabra said:
What processor do you have? It's greyed out for me...

Perhaps you have one of the latest and greatest AMDs with virtualization
stuff built-in?
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I have an Intel Celeron M processor and its not greyed out for me.
Interestingly, some process entries have a tick by the virtualisation.
Checking each entry in the list it seems that programs have a tick next to
virtualisation, like windows mail, msn messenger, sharpreader rss reader and
so on, all things I have running now have a tick. The other entries without
a tick are more like system processes.
I tried to remove a tick on one of the programs and it popped up "warning,
changing the virtualisation on a process may lead to loss of data, you
should do this only for debugging. Are you sure you want to change the
virtualisation for this process.
 
What processor do you have? It's greyed out for me...

Perhaps you have one of the latest and greatest AMDs with virtualization
stuff built-in?
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Nobody told you, the latest and greatest is now made by Intel... I have a
Core 2 Due E6600..

Anyone know what it does?? The less people know about it, the MORE I want
to know what it does :-)
 
I have an Intel Celeron M processor and its not greyed out for me.
Interestingly, some process entries have a tick by the virtualisation.
Checking each entry in the list it seems that programs have a tick next to
virtualisation, like windows mail, msn messenger, sharpreader rss reader
and so on, all things I have running now have a tick. The other entries
without a tick are more like system processes.
I tried to remove a tick on one of the programs and it popped up "warning,
changing the virtualisation on a process may lead to loss of data, you
should do this only for debugging. Are you sure you want to change the
virtualisation for this process.
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Weird. I went down just about everything in Task Manager and every single
item has Virtualization greyed out. I'm running a 3.2 GHz P4 Hyperthreaded
on an Intel 865 motherboard, and Task Manager shows 2 CPUs like it should.
Every process says "Not Allowed" if I turn on the Virtualization column
header.

Perhaps this feature is only available on newer processors?
 
Chupacabra said:
Weird. I went down just about everything in Task Manager and every single
item has Virtualization greyed out. I'm running a 3.2 GHz P4
Hyperthreaded on an Intel 865 motherboard, and Task Manager shows 2 CPUs
like it should. Every process says "Not Allowed" if I turn on the
Virtualization column header.

Perhaps this feature is only available on newer processors?
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Just having a quick check on Google and it is apparently for newer
processors. I thought yours would have been new though? Its something to do
with security and backwards compatibility programs I think.
 
Weird. I went down just about everything in Task Manager and every
single item has Virtualization greyed out. I'm running a 3.2 GHz P4
Hyperthreaded on an Intel 865 motherboard, and Task Manager shows 2 CPUs
like it should. Every process says "Not Allowed" if I turn on the
Virtualization column header.

Perhaps this feature is only available on newer processors?
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I assume it's linked to Intel Vanderpool Virtualisation technology, and
AMD Pacifica. Only on the latest and greated from both companies.
 
Nothing you can control. It's part of vista's UAC. They are processes that
are not allowed to directly write to registry/system so are run by
virtualizing them in a USER "virtual store".... or something or other like
that. It's a bit over my head but what little i've found that seems to be
the gist.
Oddly enough, Win Mail is virtualized yet it's a MS exe. Hopefully someon
knowledgable can give us the true scoop.
 
Mark Gillespie said:
Click on a process, I get a virtualization option. What does it do?

As per usual, the Vista "Help And Support" is not helpful, nor does it give me any
support....
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http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=458208&SiteID=17

The Task Manager Virtualization column corresponds to UAC file and registry virtualization, a
compatibility feature. Please see the following article for a high-level overview of file and
registry virtualization (second bullet point in the article):

http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/2006/02/22/537129.aspx

For some details on when virtualization is enabled for a process, see the following comments:

http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/2006/02/22/537129.aspx#549260

John Stephens - Software Design Engineer -
Microsoft Windows Core
 
I have the E6600 also. I think the virtualization being referred to here is
sandboxing, not VT.
 
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