I want to help remove Parallels from an iMac that belongs to a friend (the husband died, and wife now uses his iMac) since the wife has no need to run any Windows applications. I see the directions for uninstalling Parallels, and uninstalling the virtual machine on the support site. It is not clear, however, which I should do first; i.e. uninstall Parallels or uninstall the virtual machine. By the way, I continue to use Parallels on my own iMac and really love it - have never had any problems at all running my legacy Windows-only applications.