Parallels tools never initializes

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FlatDog

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I'm running 10.5.4, Parallels build 5608. (although I've had this issue in prior versions as well)

I boot up my Mac, start Parallels (which boot XP SP3 from a boot camp partition). And get the message on the screen to not do anything until the tools initialize. I can leave the machine running for 2hrs and still nothing. Every time this happens, the message never goes away. How do I fix this?

thanks.
 
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I suggest you to perform following steps

in Configuration Editor - Hard Disk 1 - Advanced - click Clear.
Note: You need to activate Windows again.

But if you have antivirus this may cause such slowdown, try to disable antivirus and check
 
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I'm not disabling anti virus, and even if I wanted to my company has not given me permissions to do so. but slowdown = 2hr+ wiat and still not finished?!

I'll try what you suggest on the clear and let you know what happens.
 
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I don't mean to be a pain but what evidence is there of this? What are the tools doing that could possibly be stopped by Anti-virus software? Don't you want some logs / data to investigate before coming up with a completely random response like that? Everyone these days has AV on their machines.
 
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