windows 11

I have left my Windows 11 instance to handle its own CPU allocations. My question is whether those CPUs are Efficiency cores, Performance cores, or a mix of the two? Obviously if they're only Performance cores, then it will take a hit on your battery life and if they're only Efficiency cores...

I always use Mullvad VPN on the host OS and I have my windows 11 VM with parallels network settings set to shared network and it always use to work fine. Recently it stopped working I boot the VM and it works for a minutes and then it disconnects and DNS fails to replace and I have to change the...

I have followed all the steps in the blog post, Writing tools works fine under the Mac. But on a Windows 11 VM, I see the "Writing Tools" menu entry under Edit on the Parallels toolbar, but when I highlight text and click it, nothing happens - nothing comes up for the tools choices. I tried it...

I have already set up a virtual machine to run Windows 11 and configured file sharing. Within the Windows 11 virtual machine, files can be opened, but they are read-only. To edit, I have to change the file properties on the Mac to allow anyone to read and write. After modifying the permissions...

Hi, I am new to parallels and have quickly run into an issue. I installed the software and then went to download windows 11, it seemingly completed the download but then began to display an error of no internet connection (which i do have). I restarted the download and it now is stuck on 4/4g...

Hello i installed windows 11 downloaded over parallels 17 directly and after the installation windows is trying to boot but i get the error inaccessible boot device and a blue screen. Then the system is shutting down and repeat the error and shutting down and so on. Can someone help me please ?

Hi, in https://kb.parallels.com/de/4948 it´s mentioned that in "Shared Network Mode" the virtual private network automatically get´s shared with the VM. In my case it does not. I use an Apple silicon MacBook Air M3 with a virtualized Windows11. Without VPN and in the companies network...

After updating Parallels to Version 20.1.0 (55732) and Windows 11 VM to 24H2 (26100.2152), scrolling got extremely slow. It only moves the view a couple of pixels for each full turn of the mouse wheel. I found out that if I go to Device Manager in Windows, find the "Parallels USB Mouse...

I'm using a windows 11 ARM VM on M3 Macbook Air 15" with external keyboard/mouse (apple magic w/touch id) and external display (ASD). I'm having issues with keyboard input which has a noticeable lag when typing inside the windows VM. The lag goes away if I assign the keyboard USB device to the...

Hello team, I have a problem with running win 11 on a mac M2 pro. Everything worked fine for a while, but now it won't start at all. Sometimes it throws an error as if win 11 is not in the place where it was before, but I don't remember that I transferred anything. Please help...

I am running Parallels Desktop ver 17.1.7 on Intel i9 MAC book pro. everytime i try to update my Win 11 to 24h2 it fails, using two separate VMs, or even with a new install. any advice?

Hey all, I'm looking for some suggestions to improve my network/Internet speed. For testing, I just did a simple test using speedtest.net to gauge my Internet speed. In my host OS, my network speed is about 2.3Gbps down and 350Mbps up. In my fresh Win11 VM, I am getting about 300Mbps down and...

Hi, Just installed Minecraft Bedrock (Win 11 in Parallels 20) on my M2 MBP Pro and the game runs fine but I have issues with camera movements. Playing in Coherence or Full screen the sensitivity is very high (with or without "game optimization" for the mouse) but I can be mostly corrected by...

I've recently upgraded to Parallels 20 for Mac Pro (Version 20.0.1 (55659)) and my Mac Dock no longer shows what Windows 11 Home Apps I have open in the VM like it did before the upgrade. I'm not in Coherence Mode and I've gone to Control Centre --> Configuration --> Options --> Applications to...

I am running Parallels desktop for Mac, version 20.0.1. My Windows 10 started an automatic update. After over 24 hours, I am still looking at little white dots moving in a small circle (indicating the upgrade) in a black window. I have tried Actions-reset, and actions restart. Each time it...

Hello, I have Mac OSX 15.0 (24A335) and Parallels v20. My VM windows 11 keeps suspending and after unsuspending the VM reboots. is there a workaround for this?

I've upgrade to Parallels 20.0.1 and after that MacOS Sequoia 15.0. My Windows 11 VM's Parallels tools are upgraded, now the network throughput of low (about 1/4 of max) and sometimes 0Kb. When I start another download/upload, the throughput runs again, until a few seconds as it goes back 0...

Hello everyone, I have just upgraded from Parallels Desktop 19 to Parallels Desktop 20 on my Mac Mini M1, where I run a virtual Windows 11 environment. Since the upgrade to Parallels Desktop 20, I am unable to launch the iTunes software for Windows. I have installed and reinstalled it, but this...

I upgraded to Parallels 20 yesterday and immediately could not perform batch resize or batch rename basic functions on ACDSee 2024 for Windows running in a Win11 VM on a MacOS 14 machine. I confirmed the fault by installing Parallels 19 again ... everything back working normally. Looks like...

Pretty much just the title. Trying to play Roblox on Windows 11, but my frames start to get choppy on start page and especially in game. I've tried other apps, not games, such as chrome, but it doesn't seem nearly as choppy as Roblox. I've seen gameplay of Roblox from other people using...