hi roman,
i get the impression there's something wrong with the link you gave for XP in a virtual machine ("http://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/#downloads")
when i visit this page my browser (firefox) gets blocked:
when i want to go to another web page (e.g.google) the browser tries
forever to connect.
not even coming back to tell me 'cannot find the server'.
this happened a few times, also after restart.
so i get suspicious about this link.
of course it has nothing to do with Pd, but the link is here in the pd-list.
rolf