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I have two Windows 7 VMs installed under MacOS Mojave and Parallels v16. I am unable to install the Parallels Tools in either VM. Generally the installation gets to about 60% on the progress bar and then an error message ("a problem occurred") appears and the only option is to reboot. This...

I need to use Windows for a work-specific app. I have two Parallels licenses (Desktop 18 Pro), one for my home iMac and one for my office MacBook. I would like to share one Virtual Machine (Win11 Pro) with both of these machines. My two ideas were (1) host the VM on OneDrive and access it from...

Hi all, In short; does anyone have a summary of the current supported features and currently known limitations of using Bluetooth LE from Windows in a Parallels Windows 11 environment? Some background: I'm developing Bluetooth LE applications in C# for Windows 11 and have recently setup my new...

Adobe Acrobat won't open and/or immediately crashes when I attempt to open it on Windows. I tried reinstalling Acrobat and restarting and resetting Parallels. I need Arobat to work so that I can test PDFs with a screen reader.

It seems like every few weeks, I look in File Explorer in my Windows VM, and my entire Mac filesystem is mounted as a network drive. So is my home directory. I turn this feature off for a reason; it would be nice if it didn't override my decision and re-enable itself. This time I think it was a...

Hello, I've been using Parallels Desktop to run a Windows virtual machine (VM) on my MacBook Pro. I've run into a recurring issue where pressing the 'Command' key within the Windows environment triggers the Windows Start menu. This happens even when I press the Command key alone, without any...

I cant access the Network that is working with my mac, on my Windows VM. so basically I cant access anything that requires an internet connection. I have tried every single step on the support page and nothing works. Please help me because I need this for work.

MBP M1. Ventura 13.3.1 That's pretty much the story

I am using an application called "Quantower". It's a trading platform on which I need the horizontal scroll to zoom in and out of charts. The horizontal scroll is completely bugged. Down-scroll is supposed to zoom in, which works. Up-scroll is supposed to zoom out, but it behaves exactly as the...

I cannot copy any text from the windows side(Windows 7) to the Mac side (MacOS Ventura) but I can do it without issues from the Mac to Windows

Hi guys, I have a MacBook Pro 16" M1 max from fall 2021. Parallels with Windows 11 ARM is installed. I am a musician and use an application called Karaoke Builder Studio to 'tap' synchronized lyrics for CDG karaoke for my company. After much tweaking of the Parallels settings over the year...

I'm using Parallels 18 on an M1 Max and for some reason there's a ton of latency when using my mic in Windows 11. At least 1 second, sometimes even multiple. I've searched around, but haven't found any answers or much information on this problem. Is anyone else having this issue?

2017 MBP, latest Monterey/Win 10 Pro.

I run Windows 10 in a Parallels VM (Parallels Version 17.1.4 (51567)) in Coherence mode. Each time I switch from a Mac app to a Windows app, a VERY LOUD BEEP sound is played, hurting my ears when I have my earphones on! This is VERY ANNOYING! Is it possible to deactivate this nasty beep sound?

Hello, I am getting an error message that will not allow for me to play Fortnite through my Parallels environment. I did not have this issue with my older MacBook Pro from 2019. When I go to load Fortnite, I get teh following error message Failed to initialize BattlEye Service: Driver Load...

I'm running Windows 11 through Parallels Desktop 17 on my M1 MacBook Pro. Everything has been running completely fine, apart from when I downloaded PUBG PC from my steam library and launched it, where I face the following error: Failed to initialize BattlEye service (driver load error 1275). I...

This is a long-shot, but does anyone know of a fingerprint reader that works with Windows 11 arm64? The ideal solution, of course, would be if Parallels could get access to the MacBook Touch ID and pass that on to Windows in some usable form. But evidently that's not possible (Parallels: if it...

I recently purchased an MacBook Pro with a M1 Pro chip, I was able to set up a window 11 arm virtual machine, and it is mostly running well. However, I am not able to install the Google Drive Desktop App. I used edge to locate and download the latest version of the application, but it fails to...

I'm running Ubuntu as a Vi and use Yubikey (USB keycard) for authentication, but after update to 17.1.0 it no longer work. Running "gpg --card-status" would give me info about the Yubikey, but after update to 17.1.0 "gpg --card-status" only show the following: gpg: selecting card failed: No such...

Hello. I'm having trouble using software that requires SSE4.2. It would be great if Parallels could handle it. Thank you.