Parallels MADDENING.

[buddhak0n]

Ok first off.. this thing never works with anything that requires graphics capabilities above that of a Spread sheet application.

Secondly, how the heck do you CHANGE the virtual machine settings... when it says you have to do this with the VM stopped, but every time you STOP THE VM the application exits and therefore the menu option disappears.

Then everytime you fire it up it's impossible to stop it from immediately BOOTING Winbloze Vista...

Somebody please explain because besides this program, my experience with a Mac has been great... The guys who wrote this have to Be Microsoft cast offs because half of what this program does makes absolutely NO sense.

[Hugh Watkins]

LOL

please start by defining the problem
OS Windows parallels builds
all the numbers

when I start Parallels from the Dock it gives me a choice of which VM I wish to run

(also if set to run on start up)

If you are starting paralles by double clicking on a file you have not yet learned the Mac OS GUI - my guess from the behaviour you describe

when paralles is running an icon will appear in the dock

control click to get a menu of choices

click Add to Dock

a good idea is to add to dock all the programs you use every day

(many of us prefer to have the dock on the left side of the screen)

and I use an MS Basic Optical Mouse which means I right click
(and can do wicked things with the mouse wheel like zooming in)

I also use old PS 2 keyboards with a modern adapter to USB - the Windows key = the Apple key and the Alt Gr is handy

The GUI is full of hidden utilities it took me months to find most of them when I returned to the Mac

Hugh W

[Xenos]

Hello,

Hugh, thank you for helping Parallels users and Parallels support as well. We appreciate your intelligent answers.

Buddhak0n, you can find the information on how to modify your VM configuration either in Parallels Desktop User Guide For Mac (p. 101) or in this KB article.

Best regards,
Xenos

[Hugh Watkins]

I started with you guys with a download at half price on the last day of your initial opening offer nearly two years ago

I have paid for one upgrade since
thank you for wonderful value and a lot of help on the journey
with two machines in one you have added enormously to the value of my 'puter

I have come back to the forums after a rest and feel duty bound to contribute as well as take

My way of using Parallels is simple and effective
and on any 'puter it pays to avoid "bells and whistles" as we used to say 10 or 12 years ago

It took me a while to relearn the Mac and the new GUI

buit the GUI is why I chose a Mac SE way back
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE and refused to learn DOS

I was at a Nikon Adobe show last week and went to a demo of http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008...aperture2.html and it was a joy to see how to use the GUI in the hands of an expert

I demonstrated Parallels to some passing guys from IBM who where ignorant about macs

when I explaind that in fact the Mac OS is a superior Unix shell
the eyes of one of them lit up because as a graduate he has many years of experience with Unix

I then explained to him as a developer the value of using a VM as a sandbox because if you break it you just open another copy of the clone

You may runs as many as 40 or 50 VMs on a very powerful server which wiil save a lot of electricty, and maintainace and staff retrainng too, if you wish to continue to use very specialised adminstrative systems built up over many years on very old computers

the other thing which impressed the guy from IBM was the speed with which WinXP started - much faster than a machine

well it was a Mac Pro

" 8-core processing was once reserved as a high-end option. Now it's at the heart of the Mac Pro line. This incredible power stems from all-new Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors, featuring speeds up to 3.2GHz and 12MB of L2 cache per processor."
you may have up to 8 screens

and it had an enormous cinema screen

Hugh W

[raronson]

/snicker @ *