I mentioned this earlier on this post: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=101146#post101146 I've now wiped my boot camp partition, reinstalled everything, fully updated my Vista install to SP1 with all the latest updates and then reinstalled Parallels. My boot camp install was working just fine until I reinstalled Parallels and set it up and immediately got the second problem I was having before where I can install third party apps, use windows explorer, but cannot access any system properties, control panel, or anything.. I have absolutely no idea how to resolve this problem. There are no error messages, if I right click something and select properties, the window just never pops up. If I try to access control panel, a blank window will briefly open, then just closes. How do I resolve this? I should mention, I've got a 15" 2.2ghz MBP w/ 4GB RAM