i just finished hassling with getting windows XP back on my desktop machine and i started parallels today on my laptop and got the attached error asking me to validate windows 7. i have a purchased version of windows 7 and this has been running on this computer for years. i tried to do this via the web and got the attached error. any ideas? is there something i need to do even though it has been running for ages and any idea on why i am getting this? "validation is not currently supported for this version of windows or for this non-microsoft operating system. it appears that ou are using an operating system that is not currently supported by the validation process. only the following operating systems are currently supported: ... windows 7