I installed the new build of Parallels 3.0 and since then my computer has slowed to a crawl. It takes a full 10 minutes to boot up the VM and then it continues to be extremely slow for the rest of the day. It takes 4 minutes to open an excel file and 2 minutes after clicking on "new" in Outlook until I can type a name in the "to" box. Everything functioned fine before the update. What could be slowing this down so much. It has turned my MacBook into a boat anchor and I'm definitely not happy with it. Since installing the available space on my 80gig drive is down from 15GB to 7GB. Very curious. I have already ordered a memory upgrade to 2GB for the computer but I'm curious as to why a new and better upgrade is making my computer behave like a commodore 64. I'm working on a MacBook 2,1 1 GB Memory 2Ghz 80 gig hardrive Any thoughts? Anagram
In reading the posts from both install forum and windows guest os forum I recommend downgrading to build 4560 until Parallels gets this build fixed. http://download.parallels.com/v3/en/GA/Parallels-Desktop-4560-Mac-en.dmg
That's my problem too Does one have to completely uninstall 5160 before downgrading or can we just install overtop? Thanks, ILANA
Completely un-install, i.e.: 1. Un-install Parallels Tools 2. Use the Un-installer that comes with Parallels Build 5160.
I did this more than once, and my Windows VM was not touched. The first time, I thought maybe I had made some mistake, so I repeated the process. Windows was still OK. Dale
Parallels, can you fix this performance issue as matter of priority. I am struggling under the degraded performance on my production machine.