Anthony Sbarro
Member
Windows 7 / Parallels 6.0.11828
It seems whenever Parallels is not the active window, the network and other connected devices / drives pause or slow down. At the moment, I'm letting Windows update run and the 4 updates are taking forever while the client window is in the background. As soon as I select the client window the download progress speeds up. I've also noticed that Windows applications that I use that rely on network connectivity stall or crash when the client window is not the active application.
I can always rely on something going wrong while Windows is in the background. These updates apparently required a restart. After clicking the go ahead to restart, and sitting here typing this post, I'm seeing a Start Up Repair dialog stating that Windows was unable to restart. This is the kind of stuff I deal with on a daily basis while Parallels is in the background. If it is left as the active window 10% of the time, things seem to work out much smoother.
I have my Performance set to Faster Virtual Machine, I've enabled Adaptive Hypervisor and have Tune Windows for Speed checked.
It seems whenever Parallels is not the active window, the network and other connected devices / drives pause or slow down. At the moment, I'm letting Windows update run and the 4 updates are taking forever while the client window is in the background. As soon as I select the client window the download progress speeds up. I've also noticed that Windows applications that I use that rely on network connectivity stall or crash when the client window is not the active application.
I can always rely on something going wrong while Windows is in the background. These updates apparently required a restart. After clicking the go ahead to restart, and sitting here typing this post, I'm seeing a Start Up Repair dialog stating that Windows was unable to restart. This is the kind of stuff I deal with on a daily basis while Parallels is in the background. If it is left as the active window 10% of the time, things seem to work out much smoother.
I have my Performance set to Faster Virtual Machine, I've enabled Adaptive Hypervisor and have Tune Windows for Speed checked.