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sorry to say, that 1GB is really not ideal - you would see much better performance with 2GB. Both systems just need piles of RAM to coexist well.

you shouldn't need Bonjour to share printers between windows PC's - in the windows XP printer installation wizard, it should allow you to select a Network Printer, and then browse printers on your network - as long as you have shared the printer on the other PC (right click on it,and click...

It shouldn't, but the best option is to "Pause" your virtual machine in parallels - this will let the system sleep a in a more stable manner, in my experience.

It won't work that way - that's what Coherence mode was designed for. in the Memory settings of your VM, pump your video memory up to at least 32MB, preferably to the max 64MB, and then start your virtual machine. When you switch to Coherence, your XP windows should be accessible on both...

multiple partitions loneguitarist - Your problem is that you have more than 2 partitions on your drive. Currently Parallels does not support booting a Boot Camp partition when you have 3 or more partitions. No idea why, it just can't handle it at this point. In fact, as I mentioned in...

Parallels creates a different hardware profile in Windows XP to enable dual booting between Boot Camp and Parallels. If your Boot Camp installation crashes in Parallels (or you stop the virtual machine), and you try to boot into Boot Camp natively, it will not be able to change Windows'...

have you tried increasing the amount of video memory allocated to the virtual machine? In your virtual machine settings (the machine must be stopped, choose Edit->Virtual Machine), choose Memory. Then move the slider for Video Memory all the way to the right, to 64mb. When you restart the...

the problem is not RAM, it's the hard disk The ability to boot a Boot Camp partition into Parallels was added due to popular demand. However, in practicality, it is not an ideal solution when it comes to performance. When you run a Boot Camp installation via Parallels, you now have 2...

I've seen some discussion of altering OSX config files to prevent it from mounting the bootcamp partition on boot, so that Parallels will not have to unmount + remount the volume when it uses it. My searches turned up nothing though, so i can't remember the specifics or if it was successful (I...

Correct - I have tested this in BootCamp and it works just as you would expect 2nd monitor setup to work in XP.

To use dual monitors in Parallels, the only way I know of is to be in Coherence mode. XP won't recognize the monitor, Coherence just allows you to set XP to a huge desktop resolution which covers both monitors. I have an MBP plugged into a 23" cinema display, and dual monitors works great for...

sundevil67 - Yes, you can have it both ways - you just have enough disk space for your BootCamp partition, OSX, and your virtual machine (which, if you choose expanding virtual disk, will generally stay around 5-10GB unless you're storing a ton of data in it). However, to 'legally' have XP...

I am running the same specs, a 2.16GHz Core Duo 17" MBP with 2GB RAM. I am running windows XP via Parallels 3.0, and I have allocated 512MB of RAM to Windows. It seems to run just fine for pretty much anything I want to do, including running Outlook 2007, Half-Life 2, etc. System response...

See this thread for the solution: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=63319#post63319 Works great for me so far, Outlook 2007 URLs (and any clicked within windows for that matter) open into Firefox in OSX.

There seems to be an issue when attempting to boot a Boot Camp partition in Parallels when you have more than one volume mounted on the system. i.e. Unless you have just a) a Boot Camp partition and b) a Mac OSX partition, Parallels will complain about the non-standard configuration and...

Ghost doesn't work - I created a new image and ghosted my windows install to it, but Parallels won't boot from it. I even tried cloning the partition with the linux tool GPartEd but it just refuses to boot.

If you haven't emptied your Recycle Bin, you have a chance of restoring the files you deleted - open the Recycle bin and select all the parallels files and choose Restore the Selected items

you are following the directions for 3036 but you are using 3106 - this will result in the problem you have encountered! there are some very important differences.

actually I tried a program called SpaceMonger - the greatest file utility I have ever seen. It maps out the space by file and folder on your drive dynamically; it's quite amazing. http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/ {note: advanced windows gibberish to follow} it showed me that there was 1.1GB...

I'm running parallels on a 17" MBP with 2GB RAM, running beta build 1862.2. I seem to be missing quite a bit of hard drive space in windows. My expanding disk image is set to 7GB, and windows is reporting that I am using up 5.61GB of that, with 1.35GB remaining. Diskeeper (my defragmenting...