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I forgot to mention that after shutting down PD successfully I was also able to download Parallels Tools.

I have found the solution to successfully shut down Parallels Desktop as well as Windows XP to be able to restart the virtual machine, and get back to work. On your Mac go to Launchpad and open Activity Monitor. Or go to Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor. Then under the column Process...

While using Quicken in Windows XP (which I have been doing flawlessly for many years) on my Mac running High Sierra everything suddenly froze. I can not quit Quicken, and I can also not shut down Windows XP. When I do a Force Quit for PD, and then restart it, the Windows XP comes back up in...

I have read otherwise. Yep. It persists. Locking the config makes no difference. I am most definitely not going to do that. I spent about half a year trying to get my printer to work with PD. After dozens of emails back and forth and even several phone calls with a guy from India, I finally...

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On the external drive the file is called "Copy of Windows XP". The file on my computer is called "Windows XP" I assume that when I follow your instruction the file in Documents > Parallels will then be named "Copy of Windows XP " I want it to be called "Windows XP" as it is now on my computer...

This does not work! I have tried this dozens of times. Enabling SmartGuard and unchecking "Do not back up virtual machine" is useless, because as soon as I close the configuration panel and reopen it, the option is checked again. It has been this way for years! Very annoying, because I cannot...

This does not work. No matter how many times I check to enable SmartGuard and uncheck "Do not back up virtual machine". Each time that last option stays checked. This option is hopelessly broken. It is simply not possible to backup the virtual machine in PD 10.

I made some changes to my Windows installation that I do not like. Before I made the changes I made a clone on an external drive called Copy of Windows. I now want to migrate that copy back to my physical PC, and can't figure out how to do that without having Parallels Desktop calling it Copy...

Ever since I installed PD 7, I can no longer print envelopes with my mail list management software. I have literally printed thousands of identical envelopes with many previous versions of Parallels. I have a feeling it may have something to do with the fact that every time I start Windows...

With all due respect, in your first answer to my post you just said install PD 7 first, without giving any reason why. And now you say "just do what I said", again without giving any real advice. I do not know your reasoning. Furthermore Parallels advises to not uninstall previous versions...

You did not read my original post correctly. I do not have OS X Lion installed, I have Snow Leopard. I asked if I should install PD 7 first or install OS X Lion first. I do not have PD 6. As I stated in my original post, I have PD 4. What do you mean by "tuck it away somewhere safe and...

I wasn't planning on installing Lion in a separate partition. Why would I want to install Lion in a separate partition? This would also mean that I would have to install all of my applications again too. And why would I then uninstall PD4 from my Snow Leopard install, and not the entire...

I am a bit rusty with upgrading Parallels Desktop, since I have not done so for a very long time. I recently bought PD 7, since I will be upgrading to OS X Lion soon, and PD 4, which I still run under Snow Leopard and which still serves me well, will no longer run under Lion. My question is...

My hard drive died, so I had to install a new drive. Since I had excluded Parallels from Time Machine backups, because they would always take so long, I did not have a backup of my VM. Now everything is installed again, and I can't find the VM on my hard drive. Where is it? How can I...

I tried to share my Windows XP virtual machine with another account on my Mac. I am running OS X 10.5.7, and Parallels Desktop 4.0.3848. I followed the instructions at http://kb.parallels.com/en/5733 to the letter. I moved my XP vm to users/shared/parallels. When I started PD, I then...

I can't make it work. I have followed the instructions in the link provided by galochka: I tried to share my Windows XP virtual machine with another account on my Mac. I am running OS X 10.5.7, and Parallels Desktop 4.0.3848. I followed the instructions to the letter. I moved my XP vm...

Some solution! So your solution to my issue, which btw I reported as already solved, is to buy a new printer.

Actually, what I did was the following. I deleted all the USB ports in the Device Manager and then restarted Windows. Windows now recognized "New Hardware" and identified the correct printer. The printer port was now automatically set to print to "Ne00" instead of LPT1 or COM1. I don't...

I was able to print in Windows XP on PD 4.0 I had to reinstall XP. Now I can no longer print even though I installed the latest drives which I downloaded from the Canon site. At first for some reason PD 4 saw my printer on a LPT1, even though it is a USB printer that was previously...