Two different Windows pvm files

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Jon12345

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I've just noticed something on my Windows installation and wondered if I have it all wrong. Some background: I did have Windows 7 set up with Parallels before, and upgraded to Windows 10.

If you look at the image below, you can see there are two pvm files. I am using Windows 10, but then look in the image after this one, and it shows that the Source is Windows 7-0.hdd. So that implies to me that the source is still Windows 7. But when I launch it, I get Windows 10. If you look at the hard drive space, it shows 426GB for Windows 10 and that is similar to the 397GB capacity shown in the second image.

Can someone please let me know what is going on here and if I have everything configured incorrectly?

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Hello, could you please right click on the Windows 10 pvm file choose "show package content" -> make a screenshot of it and share it with us.
Looking forward to your reply.
 
Here it is:

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It takes about 6 or 7 minutes for Windows 10 to load too, which is making it unusable. Lots of hard disk thrashing. I have a Fusion drive, a late 2012 iMac, with 16gb RAM and i7 CPU. Windows on Parallels used to be way faster. Now I can hardly use it. Not sure if I should open another thread for this.
 
Yes, I think I did rename it from 7 to 10. That rings a bell.

I ran the VM performance improvements as suggested in that article, at least the ones I could run. I got Windows load time down to 2 minutes. After all the hard drive thrashing has stopped, when I click the Chrome icon, it takes about 25-40 seconds to load, with tons of hard drive thrashing again.

It used to run fine, but when I upgraded from Parallels x to Parallels X+1 a while back, I then got hit by this permanent performance issue and its been the same since.
 
Just an update. I will be buying an external SSD drive for my Mac and transferring everything to there. Then I will do a fresh Windows install.
 
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