Parallels for mac installation. The purpose of this forum is the support of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program. Your question is off topic as well as outside my area of knowledge. Is there a 1 time purchase for parallels mac 13. As Carey mentioned earlier, t here are two types of licenses for XP that consumers will encounter, retail (aka full packaged product), and OEM (original equipment manufacturer). After upgrading from Windows xp to Windows 7, I had the Geek Squad install a 'Parallels' program to operate my PC within my Mac. I had previously installed Microsoft Office Professional 2007 on my PC. Parallels for mac 11 activation key.
Cannot Uninstall Windows Xp
I have been running XP in Parallels for several years. In January I tried to upgrade to Windows 8. The installation failed, Microsoft tech support couldn't figure out why, so they refunded my money and I forgot about it.
Two weeks ago, I tried again and it failed again. Again, tech support couldn't figure it out, but they guy asked me a nagging question. Are you running an anti-virus program? I said no because I had forgotten about PC Shield Deluxe, which I thought I had disabled long ago. This time they talked me into changing my purchase from download to disk. I waited patiently for 1.5 weeks for the DVD to arrive.
Using the physical disk was no better. The upgrade would start, then stop and vanish without a word. Then the nagging question resurfaced. So I went through the whole sequence of uninstalling the anti-virus stuff, which indeed was OFF, and tried again. Lo! Windows 8 installed itself and kept all my user files from XP - although it took 2+ hours to do it.
Then it invited me to install the 'free' update to 8.1. I clicked YES, but it said: Hold on. I first have to install 90 updates to Windows 8, estimated time 4 hours. That's grinding away right now.
All this time and expense is to run one program, that can't run under XP, to monitor and update my CPAP machine, when plugged in as a USB device. Hmmm. Maybe I'll submit a claim under Obamacare. What could go wrong?
Two weeks ago, I tried again and it failed again. Again, tech support couldn't figure it out, but they guy asked me a nagging question. Are you running an anti-virus program? I said no because I had forgotten about PC Shield Deluxe, which I thought I had disabled long ago. This time they talked me into changing my purchase from download to disk. I waited patiently for 1.5 weeks for the DVD to arrive.
Using the physical disk was no better. The upgrade would start, then stop and vanish without a word. Then the nagging question resurfaced. So I went through the whole sequence of uninstalling the anti-virus stuff, which indeed was OFF, and tried again. Lo! Windows 8 installed itself and kept all my user files from XP - although it took 2+ hours to do it.
Then it invited me to install the 'free' update to 8.1. I clicked YES, but it said: Hold on. I first have to install 90 updates to Windows 8, estimated time 4 hours. That's grinding away right now.
All this time and expense is to run one program, that can't run under XP, to monitor and update my CPAP machine, when plugged in as a USB device. Hmmm. Maybe I'll submit a claim under Obamacare. What could go wrong?
Uninstall Windows 7
Uninstall Windows Xp Professional
Hi,
I have the following problem.
I installed a Parallels on my MacBook, with WIndows XP. The Windows XP is installed with BootCamp, so Parallels takes the WinXp installation from BootCamp. It never worked well, I want to disinstall it. But I cannot switch the winxp off: when I open the windows in the parallels it is so slow that it takes hours to do anything, and I am not even able to select the switch off button in the windows system. So I have to kill the parallel process. When I do that, I cannot restart the windows from BootCamp: when I select windows from BootCamp, a black screen appears, asking me if I want to choose 'Paralles' or 'Windows Xp'. Consider that in this moment I am not in the MacOs, I am at the beginning of everythin with a black screen, so the Parallels installation doesn't make sense at this stage. The default is 'Parallels' (and it takes very short time to start, something like one second). If 'Parallels' is started, Windows does not start, it complains about a file missing in the system32 folder. If I am very fast, I can select to start 'Windows' and it works, it starts, and I am happy with this. But I would like to avoid the blanck screen at the beginning, I want to start Windows directly. I suppose that the black screen will disappear if I manage to switch off WIndows from Parallels, but I don't know how to do that, it is completely stalled. So please, give me some suggestion on how to solve this problem.
Thanks,
Massimiliano
I have the following problem.
I installed a Parallels on my MacBook, with WIndows XP. The Windows XP is installed with BootCamp, so Parallels takes the WinXp installation from BootCamp. It never worked well, I want to disinstall it. But I cannot switch the winxp off: when I open the windows in the parallels it is so slow that it takes hours to do anything, and I am not even able to select the switch off button in the windows system. So I have to kill the parallel process. When I do that, I cannot restart the windows from BootCamp: when I select windows from BootCamp, a black screen appears, asking me if I want to choose 'Paralles' or 'Windows Xp'. Consider that in this moment I am not in the MacOs, I am at the beginning of everythin with a black screen, so the Parallels installation doesn't make sense at this stage. The default is 'Parallels' (and it takes very short time to start, something like one second). If 'Parallels' is started, Windows does not start, it complains about a file missing in the system32 folder. If I am very fast, I can select to start 'Windows' and it works, it starts, and I am happy with this. But I would like to avoid the blanck screen at the beginning, I want to start Windows directly. I suppose that the black screen will disappear if I manage to switch off WIndows from Parallels, but I don't know how to do that, it is completely stalled. So please, give me some suggestion on how to solve this problem.
Thanks,
Massimiliano