OT: Parallels 4

[Bob Sneidar]

Hi Jacqueline.

I have upgraded, and no it is not very smooth. I would make a backup  
of your hard drive image before proceeding.

The bugaboo comes in when they try to do the upgrade automatically,  
but the script is not a very good one. At some point they ask you to  
log in and launch the Parallels Tools installer (in case it does not  
auto launch, which mine did not). But they don't exactly explain it  
very well. Now if you are so very unwise as to force the machine to  
restart (because at one point it seems you are stuck) you will  
probably damage your Windows installation to where it will go into an  
endless loop trying to boot to where you can log in and it never gets  
there.

Thankfully I had a copy of the image file. I got a second chance to go  
at it again and figured out what it was they were asking me to do.  
After the first restart, they want to install the Parallels Tools, but  
the installer cannot run until you LOG IN FIRST! Sometimes Windows  
goes nutz at that point and won't auto launch the CD image of the  
tools, so  they are saying you might have to do that yourself.

The other thing that happens is your mouse will stop working! It's  
easily fixed if you have a USB mouse. Just unplug it and replug it in.  
Parallels will ask you if you want to use the new USB device. Normally  
you would answer NO because the USB mouse or keyboard would then  
belong ONLY TO WINDOWS. But in this case you DO want Windows to have  
control of the mouse, because that is the only way you are going to  
click on anything at this point.

Better yet, if you have a second mouse, just plug that in and use that  
inside Windows. That way the Mac mouse will still be available. Once  
Parallels Tools finishes installing and you restart your PC, all will  
be well again.

Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM

On Nov 24, 2008, at 3:56 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> A bit off-topic but I know a lot of us here use Parallels for Windows
> testing.
>
> I haven't upgraded yet to Parallels 4.0. Version 3.x is working fine  
> for
> me. Has anyone upgraded, and if so, would you recommend it? The forums
> are full of people complaining that the transition is not a smooth  
> one.
> I've been thinking of waiting for the next dot-increment but I'm  
> afraid
> their upgrade price will increase. Thoughts?
>
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