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    Upgraded To Parallels Desktop 4.0 NO PROBLEMS At All !!!

    People rarely pop in just to report success, but have a failure, and watch the indignant venom flow. I would be willing to bet that for every failure reported here there are hundreds of completely non-eventful upgrades. I would also be willing to bet that for most failed upgrades, there was...
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    Does Parallels 4.0 Support DirectX 9c?

    go to start menu, run, dxdiag and look at the version of directx. Mine says DirectX 9c
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    What does Adaptive Hypervisor option in v 4.0 actually do?

    I turned it off because I want my windows os to actually do work while in the background, and with the AHV on, it lollygags around when you aren't watching it. I could see it as being useful under some circumstances, however.
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    Viruses

    Take a look at sandboxie: http://www.sandboxie.com/ This is what I use to isolate suspicious items on XP.
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    Gaming with Parallels... not possible?

    I am a noob in general with parallels, but not with XP. I have been able to run DX9c games in parallels 4 with no problems (Team Fortress 2). I would advise you to remove your video card from Device Manager in Windows and let it redetect it on reboot. Make sure you have directx support turned on...
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    Who is NOT having problems?

    I had no problems at all upgrading. Didn't even pay attention while it was doing it. I did have a problem after using my work network (wired GB ethernet) and then going home to use my wireless. I had to set the network settings back to default for the VM while the airport was connected and...
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    Configuration Questions - Hypervisor

    Yes, hypervisor performance boost adjusts the VM priority depending on if the VM is the frontmost window. Personally, I turned it back off.
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    Build 5608 "Enable Virtual Memory Allocation" Problem - Help!

    Your Mac Memory is fragmented. Run your maintenance tasks in MacOSX, and reboot. Fixed.
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    Parallels 4 Team Fortress 2 Works Nicely

    I have tried a few steam games, Penny Arcade 1, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead Demo. PA1, and TF2 works great. L4D however does not. The screen size is set to 640x480 and displays nothing, but the mouseover sounds work when you mouse around and wander over a button. The lead in video...
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