Open / Save Dialog Boxes very slow

[Bryan in Leawood]

I am running the latest version of Parallels for Mac on a beefed up MBP running 10.9.4.

I used to run VMWare Fusion but 6 months ago switched to Parallels. It has worked very well for me, except for one thing.

When I was running Fusion I had a tech support issue and the guys from VMWare changed some of my drive mappings between my Mac and my Windows environment. I believe it was so that one environment could "see" everything in the other, but I don't recall.

Anyway, ever since I installed Parallels I have a really significant delay when I open a save or close dialogbox. I get about an 11 second delay. I know it isn't terribly long, but it adds up over the day.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Ram@Parallels]

Hi Bryan in Leawood,

Please follow the steps as suggested bellow:

1. Download parallels Desktop 9 latest build from www.parallels.com/directdownload/pd9
2. Install Parallels Desktop 9 http://kb.parallels.com/116989
3. (Re)Install Parallels Tools as suggested at http://kb.parallels.com/4841
4. Shutdown Virtual Machine.
5. Go to Virtual Machine Configuration (http://kb.parallels.com/117287) > General > Increase number of CPU's to '2', increase memory to '4GB'.
6. Click on Options > Optimization > check Enable Adaptive Hypervisor.

Start Virtual Machine and let us know how does it work.

 

[Bryan in Leawood]

Ram,

I am running a Windows VM and I don't want to lose all the programs and settings in it. I am running the latest version of Parallels and Tools. I already have given the VM 4 Gig and 4 CPUs. Windows runs amazingly fast in the VM, everything EXCEPT file dialogs. I migrated form a version of VMWare where they messed with some mappings. I am sure that is where the problem is, but I don't remember what the heck they did.

Is there a way I can get rid of these file mappings without re-installing?

Bryan