Parallels general advice

Security Essentials, or other A/V software installed into Windows within the Virtual Machine.

As for your spinning beach ball, you might consider clearing your local cache (~/Library/Caches) to Trash. Then reboot into Safe Boot Mode, empty the Trash, and then reboot normally. Once you have done this, you may experience some interactive performance improvement.

I perform a Safe Boot Mode about once a month as basic maintenance.

sjc47 wrote:

I'm not impressed so far with what Parallels is doing to performance. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I am currently using VMware Fusion 5 with Windows 8 64-bit and Windows XP Professional. I ran Parallels 7 until last year when I dumped it for Fusion 5. I don't game or anything but mainly run Office and some academic apps so I can't speak to the performance of one over the other. Fusion just seems more reliable to me and I've been very happy with it so far.

sjc47 wrote:

Thank you VikingOSX for the information. As you did, I installed the Sophos free software out of curiosity and found no threats. It doesn't appear to affect performance. My question still is do I have to actually download and install something like MS Security Essentials on the Windows VM created by Parallels or will Sophos work on both sides?

Also, just as a note, after installing Parallels (and to be fair, upgrading the RAM to 16GB) I've noticed that my Mac Mini takes considerably longer to get to the login screen and then after entering my password I get a spinning ball for about 15 seconds before the desktop appears. This process was instantaneous prior to Parallels (having installed an SSD prior to Parallels). I also noticed that it took about a minute for the Mini to come out of sleep mode.

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Sophos may be your time issues. Get rid of it ASAP.

I don't see any of the time issues you mention on my 2011 Mini Server

with SSD, other than log in, but it is only a few seconds and is due

to various network services I have active on my account.

To remove everything you need to uninstall Parallels and the Virtual Machine file that it made to house Windows.

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