Unable to connect to Parallels Service
(EDITED) Spoke too soon after rebooting still cannot connect to parallels service and no one at parallels seems to answer these posts.
After noticing quite a few posts about disabling spotlight it occurred to me that none of them had mentioned a simple fix that may overcome the slow boot up and the "Unable to connect to Parallels Service" error messages. So here is the fix I came up with.
1. Open the Macintosh HD drive
2. Select System preferences icon
3. Select Spotlight
4. Select Privacy tab in spotlight and note the option to "Prevent spotlight from searching these locations".
In the Macintosh HD drive locate and expand the Applications folder.
5. Drag the red Parallels folder onto "Prevent spotlight from searching these locations".
6. Drag the icon Parallels Desktop onto "Prevent spotlight from searching these locations".
7. Navigate to Macintosh HD drive, select the Library folder and expand the folder.
Drag the Parallels folder onto "Prevent spotlight from searching these locations".
8. Navigate to Macintosh HD drive and select users and then your user name.
Expand the documents folder and drag the Parallels folder onto "Prevent spotlight from searching these locations".
9. Launch Parallels desktop and tell me if everything does not speed up and the error messages simply disappear.
Last edited: Dec 24, 2009