Updating Parallels for the first time

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Rod Williams

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Sorry if I missed this, but I am updating my Parallels build 1970 for the first time to 3088. Since there are no updating instructions(that I can find), I want to make sure I do it right. I downloaded build 3088 and assume that you select install Parallels. Does the installation check for an earlier version and merely update it? I don't want to have to reinstall XP.
Thanks for your helkp.
Rod
 
There are more detailed posts on the forum that you can find, but the high points are:

1. Make sure you exit (not suspend) all you VMs before upgrading.
2. Some people find it helper to uninstall parallel tools from all their VMs before installing the upgrade.
3. A reboot of OSX isn't a bad thing in case an old kext is in a weird state.
4. Run uninstaller for 1970
5. Reboot
6. Install 3188
7. Reboot
8. Load VMs and make sure parallel tools gets installed.

These are the really paranoid version.
 
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