How to remedy a residual problem in VPC6 caused by installing & then uninstalling HP printer software?

Source: microsoft.public.mac.virtualpc Sent: 04/24/2006 From: "Petula" <(email address - cut out)> Message: (I'm running Win2000 in VPC6 on a 17" G4 iMac.) BACKGROUND: I (naively) installed the software for a new all-in-one (a-i-o) printer, model HP PSC 1410, into my virtual machine. Results included VPC "speeds" that were something like watching grass grow. Therefore, I uninstalled the HP software. (Thank you, Paul Power, for confirming and explaining the bad effects of the HP software on VPC.) (By the way, it took my use of the "Windows Installer Cleanup Utility" to remove one of the four HP programs, i.e. "HP Image Zone Express". That program would not be budged by "Add/Remove Programs".) THE RESIDUAL PROBLEM: While VPC is almost back to functioning as it was before I installed the HP software, a serious problem remains: When I leave VPC open (on the Mac) for longer than about twenty minutes, VPC freezes up - i.e. the VPC program in the Mac does not respond to mouse clicks, or ...  more