it’s me… henry

So, I’ve been using VirtualBox for a while and everything is good.  Then recently, VirtualBox would randomly crash.  What happens WinXP will boot, then it will start, but the screen size is really small (640×480).  So after I boot up, I would try to resize the desktop, but once I got into the display properties, it would crash.  In VirtualBox, it says WinXP is “aborted”.  Googling at what “aborted” meant, it says that it’s just a random crash.

Thinking what changed previously… I remember I’ve been using RDP a lot more, so I disabled it.  That gave me a little time to do something, but the screensize is still 640×480.  So I went to display properties, and it crashed.  I turned RDP back on cause that’s the not cause of it.

Still thinking now….  I look at my firewall (firestarter) and it was “red”.  So I looked and it was blocking NTP (port 123).  So I enabled it to see if that helps.  And now… no more crashing.

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