Hi, I've noticed that although my Windows task manager shows 0-2% that the Mac shows that Parallels is using almost 20% consistently, even though nothing appears to be running in the Windows vm. I don't know if this is a normal / acceptable amount. I have 8 GB RAM, 4GB reserved to Windows, I've tweaked all optimisation settings to try and improve but none of them made any noticeable improvement. I've disabled Windows indexing, Windows Media network centre and anything else that seemed likely to shave some time off. Temporarily I removed all sharing of folders too. My expectation would be that the Mac CPU should also be 0-5%? Am I being too sensitive to how much CPU is in use? Thanks Rob
