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Lower the VM assigned RAM.

The HP driver is there to be able to print at the same time in Windows and OS X, it emulates the HP printer on Windows but sends the prints to OS X....

Do you have any idea why the Macbook froze? Have you looked into the logs? It's highly possible this is the result of a malfunctioning disk. You...

THe hdd file is a large file, several GBs, if you had problems with your harddisk it is very likely that this file got corrupted.

Select the VM > Configure... > Hardware > Hard Disk 1 > Source > Choose an image file > navigate inside the .pvm in .../Parallels/ and select the...

* You seem to not have much consideration for Parallels Support by they did spot the malfunctioning drive. * Is the Windows install Bootcamp based?...

I have no idea what you did, and you don't seem to have one either, but I cannot envision a situation where someone would accidentally move the VM to...

Has it occurred to you to move it back to the Parallels folder in Documents?

I'm also unsure what's making your distros run slow... It might not necessarily be something that Parallels can fix. You should post a description in...

http://www.parallels.com/support/desktop-virtualization/desktop/#c12970

I think you shouldn't be asking for a new version, you should be asking for an update to your current version that fix possible problems? I'm not...

What's new in Parallels Desktop 8.0.18483.860857:April 3rd, 2013 · Addresses overall stability and performance issues, and includes the following...

Windows doesn't have direct access to the graphics card under Parallels, you can't install native drivers, you have to install Parallels Tools which...

You are missing one piece of information, in what virtualization program? Parallels Workstation (the equivalent of PDM for Windows)? VirtualBox?...

I'm sorry to say that if you had done a bit of research you wouldn't be asking this question. It's been publicized greatly teh ability for Parallels...

It all depends if you have enough free RAM when you start the VM, if not it will start paging and become slow. Check Activity Monitor before you...

The latest version of PDM8 fixes this.

Follow the network troubleshooting guide in my signature. Also, be sure to check for configured proxies in IE.

If you create a disk image (.dmg) of the USB key, add a new CD/DVD hardware device to to VM configuration, choose that image, does it work?

The only possibility is to call MS. "The activation server reported that the multiple activation key has exceeded its limit." : There's way around...

The normal procedure is via File > Open. The reason it's greyed out it's because .vmdk is not the virtual machine but only part of it, a VMWare VM is...

Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs (You should see Parallels Tools here and uninstall it like any other Windows program)