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Time zone issues with Parallels 6?

I upgraded to Parallels 6 last week with no issues. The problem I am having is that the time zone setting in my Windows XP VM keeps getting changed from Central Time (US and Canada) to Central America...

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in OS & Utilities, by John Belanger

Sep 20 2010, 3:19pm

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Parallels 6 installation issues

Received Parallels 6 CD today.  Upon insertion it failed to auto-start, and it disconnected my DVD-CD drive from the MAC OS, such that I cannot eject the disc because the OS no longer recognizes ...

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in OS & Utilities, by Patrick Whalen

Sep 13 2010, 10:27pm

What's with this extra soft on parallels desktop?

I bought the soft and got a link to download Acronis Disk Director and True Image. Can I install them and use the parallels activation key? Thanks in advance.

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in OS & Utilities, by Cesar lloro

Jul 15 2011, 7:13am

Activation code for former version of Parallels Desktop for Mac

I purchased Version 6 of Paralells, as version 3.0 will not work with Snow Leopard.  I cannot activate Version 6, because my e-mail crashed and I do not have the activation code for version 3.0.&...

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in OS & Utilities, by Annabell Zikmund

May 16 2011, 6:26pm

Parallels for Mac - Windows installation

I would like to upgrade my Windows OS from XP to Windows 7 within the Parallels shell. When I look at the Parallels website for assistance in this matter the only thing that comes up is the opportunit...

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in OS & Utilities, by James Churchill

Jul 5 2011, 2:23pm

Failure to access CD/DVD SuperDrive

I'm getting an error message whenever I launch a Windows VM in Parallels 5 on a Mac Mini running Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.4).  The drive works perfectly in OS X, itself.  

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in OS & Utilities, by Mark Wallace

Oct 26 2010, 2:26pm

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Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac installation media not recognized

Just opened the box for Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac. After reading the installation instructions, I inserted the DVD and waited -- nothing happened. I verified my Finder preferences to show the CD/DVD...

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in OS & Utilities, by Jim Taylor

Sep 8 2010, 5:10pm

My Parallels 3.0 Activation Code doesn't work when I enter it...

My Parallels 3.0 Activation Code will not work when I am upgrading Parallels 3.0 to 6.0.  In spite of entering the code on the back of my CD sleeve, I continue to get the: "The specified key can...

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in OS & Utilities, by Michael Sutherland

Jul 21 2011, 7:48pm

NOt letting me enter license key

I purchased my parallels six from the website, I ran install did not ask me to enter my license key when I went to update says that license key is illegal but I purchased from the parallels site. I ha...

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in OS & Utilities, by gwilanne parker

Oct 1 2010, 7:00pm

Parallels 6

I have Parallels 6 on my Mac. Installed Mac OS Lion without knowing that Lion does not support Parallels 6. I now cannot launch Parallels. How do I remove Parallels and all of Windows 7? Jerry scruf...

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in OS & Utilities, by Jerry Romanowski

Sep 6 2011, 2:21pm

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