Parallels 3.0/Vista home premium/DVD issue

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I bought and installed Parallels 3.0 and Windows Vista Home Premium on my iMac (10.5.4 / 2.4GHz).
The whole point of the exercise is to run DRM Video Disks (an education course) that is not supported by Windows Media Player for Macs. It seems as though a codec may be missing, or more.

As Microsoft will not give support for their products on Parallels I am stuck. Spent hours yesterday trying to track down a solution to no avail.

Without a solution I now want to uninstall Vista - can't find how to do it! If anyone can offer any assistance I would be so very grateful.
 
Why tell Microsoft that Windows Vista is installed in Parallels?
It is no matter where Windows installed (except case with 3d)
Somewhere on his forum there is solution to delete DRM folder, but I tried to find and failed, may be you can find
 
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Sometimes I am just too honest for my own good!
I'm not with you though - delete DRM folder? Its a DRM video disk I'm trying to run.
 
No, I didn't mean to delete disk ,there is problem in Vista with playing DRM, try to find post in forums
There is a reference to delete DRM folder in user profile
 
I found one of my solution

try Vista in resolution 1024x768 and check for Video.
Also please make sure you set set Vista Hardware acceleration to full
1. Choose Start > Control Panel.
2. Double click Personalization and select Display Settings.
3. Click Advanced Settings.
4. Click Change Settings on the Troubleshooting tab.
5. Move the Hardware Acceleration slider to Full.
6. Click Apply and then click OK to accept the new setting and close the dialog box.
7. Click OK to close the Display Properties dialog box.
8. Restart Windows.
 
That made no difference. The acceleration slider was already on Full.

I'm becoming increasingly uneasy about all this. What I have found on the forum suggests that Parallels 3 does not support DRM.

I'm unclear how to uninstall Parallels (or Vista, come to that). Do I have to uninstall Vista first and then Parallels? I can find no information on how to do this, please can you help?
 
If you installed Vista from Parallels, you can just delete folder in Documents/Parallels called Microsoft Windows Vista, or something like that
 
Thanks John. I did make the decision to uninstall Vista and Parallels then reinstalled Vista with Boot Camp. That sorted me out and I can now run the DRM Video Disks - which was the whole point of the exercise. It does mean I have to reboot the machine to swap between but, for me, that's not too much a problem.

Thanks again for all your assistance. I'm just sorry that Parallels wasn't the product for me.
 
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