Need Help With Screen Resolution Problem

Hi, I just bought Parallels 3.0 for Mac running OX 10.5.4 to use with my mac mini 2 GHZ / 1GB MEM / 120HD and Windows XP Home Edition. I invested all this money to be able to run a windows program that will allow me to post written articles to article directories. The program is named Article Post Robot (APR).

My problem is that when I try to install the APR software the program fails to install giving an error message stating the screen resolution is too low to run the program.

The screen resolution of my MAC is set at 1024 x 768. I'm using a LACie electron 22 blue 4 monitor. The default screen resolution of windows XP is 935 x 616. I turned off XP and went to Parallels - edit - Virtual Machine - Video - Screen Resolution and set up a - Custom screen resolution 1024 x 768 and checked the box.

When I turn XP back on and try to raise the screen resolution it will not hold and continues to revert back to the default 935 x 616 resolution. Does anyone know what the problem might be and how to correct it? If I cannot use this program I have just wasted $400.

Thanks,
pacecom

 

Screen resolution should be higher in Mac OS, other solution is set Full Screen mode and change resolution

 

Thanks for your reply

Thanks for your reply John. The full screen did allow me to install the program but there was some kind of error that prevented it from working properly. I'm not sure this is a Parallels issue though. I will have to contact the software company to ask about this problem.

I can't really raise the screen resolution with this mac mini without have the HTZ rate so low that it hurts my eyes. I don't think the mac mini has a very powerful video card.

Thanks,
pacecom

 

I have the same problem here.
Parallels will not hold the high resolution in window-mode, but will automatically switch back XP to the low res to fit in the Parallels application window.
Any help would be highly appreciated!
I remember Parallels keeping the high resolution and displaying scrollbars to handle the full window content.
Where can I (re-)activate this behavior?
Thx!

 

Stop Parallels Coherence service in Services.msc