I tried your suggestion of setting it to start in Coherence mode as the default. My XP installation still will not show the Start Menu when clicking on the Parallels dock menu. I upgraded to 3186 and there was no difference. Because the Start Menu won't appear for any reason, I have to show the Task Bar. Sigh.
My Vista install also fails to load. Although it had been working just fine through RC1, under RC2 and RC3 killed my ability to run my Vista VM with the error that it can't run it because the BIOS is not ACPI compatible. Huh? It ran perfectly fine before. So what happened to the simulated BIOS to make it suddenly ACPI incompatible? If I try to prepare for Vista upgrade, it'll tell me the VM is not upgradeable. Another sigh. I'll have to reinstall Vista from scratch.
Last edited: Feb 28, 2007