Installed Vista using the assistant .. booted to logon screen but the Admin account wants a password that I never set - any ideas what the default is ? Or is there another way around it?
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Vista install on Parallels
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Which version of Vista? RC2 never asked for an admin password, at least not on any of the installs that I ever did.
Yup .. it's RC2, used the Parallels install assistant . .boots to login screen, wont take blank password either.
Adam
Interesting. You might try posting in the Mac forum on Parallels' website (if you haven't already). http://forums.parallels.com
Flight sim X
I installed vista RC1 and it didn't ask me any password, it logged in automatically.If u don't find a soloution, maybe you can try reinstall it.
I have a question though! I installed flight simulator X and once i try to open it, there is an error message concerning the video card(which is the ATI Radeon X1600), it says that my video card is not supported. The installed driver for my video card is "Parallels video card". I downloades the drivers for vista from ATI's website, but there is another error message during the installation of the drivers that tells me that a video card could not be found!!!! Does anybody have any idea? Please help!
P.S. vista sucks.....it took them more than five years to make a "new" OS, which seems worse than XP to me.
I installed vista RC1 and it didn't ask me any password, it logged in automatically.If u don't find a soloution, maybe you can try reinstall it.
I have a question though! I installed flight simulator X and once i try to open it, there is an error message concerning the video card(which is the ATI Radeon X1600), it says that my video card is not supported. The installed driver for my video card is "Parallels video card". I downloades the drivers for vista from ATI's website, but there is another error message during the installation of the drivers that tells me that a video card could not be found!!!! Does anybody have any idea? Please help!
P.S. vista sucks.....it took them more than five years to make a "new" OS, which seems worse than XP to me.
Parallels won't give the guest OS (Vista, in this case) direct access to the Video card in your Mac. Instead, it gives it a virtual video card (that's the "Parallels video card" that Windows can see). This virtual video card probably won't support the needs of most games.
It must be the install assistant that set the password. It has to be documented somewhere close by...
When I ran the Vista install, it asked me for a password. If you don't remember what you chose, then sorry, you'll need to reinstall Vista.
This is assuming you used the publicly downloadable ISO of Vista from Microsoft. If you got Vista from another source, who knows what's going on.
This is assuming you used the publicly downloadable ISO of Vista from Microsoft. If you got Vista from another source, who knows what's going on.