How Can I Improve Virtual Machine Performance On My Apple Mac?

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Parallels have released Parallels Desktop 6.0.12092, a safety update for the virtualization software for Mac OS X. The update improves the overall performance of your device with high-level compatibility and fixes bugs. This update also improves the sharing of clipboards between Mac OS X and Windows running in virtual machines. The newly released desktop also fixes a problem with the Finder and Dock becoming unresponsive when working with Parallels-created icons larger than 128x128 pixels. But while using this parallels desktop software, many of the users are facing that the speed and performance of their Mac devices are going slow. To fix this error, you can simply contact the customer service for Parallels toll-free number and get instant solutions from Apple experts proficiently.

Cause

There could be numerous reasons which cause the slow performance of your Mac device. The main causes are unsupported hardware, or a lack of hardware resources, and an incorrect resource allocation to the virtual machine.

To fix this error,first of all you should check if your computer meets Parallels Desktop system requirements or allocate less RAM for the virtual machine. Phone-Help-Desk.Com

• First of all, open Optimization tab -> Performance -> set to Faster Mac.
• If you suspect an incorrect resource allocation to the virtual machine side, then you need to identify applications on Mac that may consume too many resources:
• Restart Mac and ensure that Parallels Desktop is not running.
• Open Finder and go to Applications Folder > Run Activity Monitor.
• Click on the CPU tab, this will display the process that consumes the most CPU in descending order.
• Observe which process consumes the most CPU usage and takes note of the name.

If your Mac still has low-performance issue, then the issue is not related to Parallels Desktop. For this, you can take help from Parallels support for Mac and get quality support from the expert technicians instantly.

For Windows 8:

To fix this

• Start virtual machine and go to start and type Msconfig and hit Enter.
• In the System Configuration, select selective startup and uncheck Load startup items.
• In the Services, tab UN-check hide all Microsoft services, tap enable option and click Apply.
• Check Hide all Microsoft services, tap disable all, locate and check: Parallels Coherence Service and Parallels Tools and click Apply.
• In the Startup tab, tap open task Manager and disable all the processes except Parallels Control Center.
• Reboot virtual machine.
• Check if the issue still persists then shut down virtual machine, open virtual machine configuration in the security Tab, and turn on Isolate Windows from Mac option.
• Finally, start the virtual machine and check the issue.

You can contact Parallels Support team if you still experience 'the slow Mac performance' issue while using Parallels Desktop and relevant solutions instantaneously.