Properly uninstalling Parallels?

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barrowman

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My MacPro with 2gb RAM is just freezing everytime I try and run a Parallels Virtual Machine, ie just click "play" button on anything and it freezes, beach ball of death etc. Force restart by holding down power button. :mad:

This is the latest release 1898! :mad:

Thing is I'm trying to uninstall it to try and start again, but the included uninstaller is sadly useless, it leaves most of the files behind, I've physically had to drag the supplementary files, prefs etc to the trash, yet after spotlighting everything, when it comes to reinstalling, the startup screen still gives me a list of VM machines I've been trying to create, where is it getting this information from :confused:

If anyone could help me purge my machine of these parallels files it would be good, then I can only hope that they manage to solve these issues, or else it's onto Bootcamp now that Apple have sorted the SATA issue at last!
 
I find the uninstaller quite useful. It appears to do exactly what I would have designed an uninstaller to do. It removes the application, the system files (kernel extensions) and the startup logic that loads the system stuff at boot. It leaves the license and preferences file, and does not uninstall anything that install didn't put there. This means it doesn't delete the virtual machines I worked so hard to create. I consider this proper uninstaller behavior.

If you want to delete absolutely everything, spotlight parallels, and delete whatever you don't want.
 
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