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Problem Solved! I had recently started running Skype in my guest OS instead of running it in OSX. I exited Skype and now I am idle at 15-20%! The odd thing is that XP taskmgr says Skype is idle....but activity monitor reports Parallels running at 65%. Are you running skype too?

seems to run alright. I dont seem to notice that its running worse. But it just bothers me to see the CPU % is so high when It didnt used to run like that.

OK....now it gets stranger. I just did a clean install of build 3188 on a brand new Macbook Pro with 3GB RAM that has never even had 3.0 installed and it run XP Pro at 40% idle. Maybe its something with the 3188 build as well? I cant remember what build I was using when I had the CPU idle...

I tried this and it knocked my CPU usage down to 40% from mid 50s. This is still not right. I used to run around 15% idle. I am not even running the trial of version 3 anymore, so I dont know why I am having this problem.

What do you all mean by remove the USB Connector? My VM isnt currently using any shared USB devices.....

Cpu I have the same problem. I upgraded to 3.0, then un-installed and went back to build 3188. That is when I noticed the CPU usage problem. 3.0 must have some left over settings that is messing up build 3188. I tried deleting the system preferences for Parallels, but that didnt help...

I have been searching the posts about Parallels for Mac and Blackberry USB support and I dont seem to see anyone with my issue. I dont have the 5-10 sec error everyone else reported. When I plug my Blackberry in, the USB on XP does chime and I do see the Blackberry as recognized in Device...