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Parallels VM process has high CPU on Macbook Pro Retina when running Chrome in Parallels 8

When I look in Activity Monitor in Mac OS X 10.8.3 on a Macbook Pro 15" Retina while running Chrome (Build 26.0.1410.64) in a Windows 8 Pro VM hosted in Parallels 8 (Build 8.0.18483) I see that the ...
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How to I get Parallels to use a mapped drive for the user folder?

I have Parallels running a copy of Windows 7 within a Macbook Pro. By default it appears to share the Mac home directory like this: \\psf\Home\Documents\ ...which causes issues for a few bits of ...
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Change Mac settings depending on situation

I use my mac as a lightweight laptop at college, but when I get home I plug it in to charge and plug in 2 external monitors and use it for more power use. Some things that really annoy me are ...
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Why is parallels giving me the error “there is no disk in the drive”?

I installed parallels on my macbook pro and i installed windows 7 iso via a DVD. at first everything looked fine exception now I am now trying to compile an asp.net-mvc app in visual studio and i get ...
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double finger swipe in Windows virtual machine (running Parallels)

I have a MacBook Pro and am running Windows as a virtual machine with Parallels. One of the things I love about the Mac experience is the ability to two finger swipe in a browser to "go back". ...
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How can I get parallels 6 to run well on my MBP

I've been trying to run windows 7 on my MBP on parallels so that I can test different browsers. Trouble is, it is just slow, I mean excruciatingly slow. Like booting it up takes 15 minutes. It's ...