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Parallels and Windows 7

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  • 15-03-2015 2:42pm
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    JonMac
    Registered Users Posts: 467 ✭✭


    I bought my iMac last August with 8GB of RAM. I have one essential program that only runs on Windows, so I bought Parallels and Windows 7 to run it on the iMac.
    Now I know Windows is always slow, but this one on Parallels is really lethargic.
    It uses very little of the CPU and RAM, also the download speed is pathetic; Windows Update wanders between 1 kb/s and 500 kb/s [thereabouts].
    Any ideas or is this par for the course?


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    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,516 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    How much resources have you assigned to the VM? Have you installed Parallels tools and are sharing the network settings?
    My VM running on 4 cores and 4GB of RAM (out of 32 on my iMac) with a 60GB volume flies along.


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    JonMac
    Registered Users Posts: 467 ✭✭JonMac


    Thank you! I am a new user of Parallels and not up to speed. I changed to 2 cores and 4GB and it is much faster.


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    7upfree
    Registered Users Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭7upfree


    Same here 5uspect. Never a bother. Five years and still smoking!


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    200motels
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    JonMac wrote: »
    I bought my iMac last August with 8GB of RAM. I have one essential program that only runs on Windows, so I bought Parallels and Windows 7 to run it on the iMac.
    Now I know Windows is always slow, but this one on Parallels is really lethargic.
    It uses very little of the CPU and RAM, also the download speed is pathetic; Windows Update wanders between 1 kb/s and 500 kb/s [thereabouts].
    Any ideas or is this par for the course?
    Now I know Windows is always slow, what a terrible statement. My PC with Windows 7 boots to desktop in 11 seconds, it's slow alright.


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    JonMac
    Registered Users Posts: 467 ✭✭JonMac


    Lucky you. My Dell with Windows 7 is diabolical.


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    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,516 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    200motels wrote: »
    Now I know Windows is always slow, what a terrible statement. My PC with Windows 7 boots to desktop in 11 seconds, it's slow alright.

    Boot time is dependent on the speed of your storage device. Booting any OS from a SSD is going to be faster than booting from a spinning disk.

    However the fact remains than Windows is in general a much more sluggish experience than most *.nix environments. I wanted a significant amount of time this week while Win7 'discovered' and 'recycled' several hundred gigs of old measurement files when OS X or Linux would just mark the files deleted instantly and I could have gotten back to work.

    Windows is in serious need of a complete overhaul. Windows 10, unlike previous versions, appears to more than an exercise in deckchair rearrangement at least.


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