VMWare Fusion -- Dreadfully Slow

[magentawave]

Yes there is something you can do about it. Dump Macafee and get ESET NOD32. It is the lightest anti-virus for windows you can buy. You won't even know its running unlike most of the other resource hog anti-virus programs. It isn't free though.

Steve

 

[LAS.mac]

I do use Parallels 4, and was previously using Parallels 3. As the fellow above, because of excel and VBA macros which do not run in Excel for mac OSX.
I have allocated 512 Mb of RAM, of the 4 available. Also when I had 2 Mb, Parallels was running fine.
Now: I'd never (and repeat: NEVER) would use McAfee, nor Nortons. I have Avira, which is free, light, does perfectly its job.

Oh: my VBA macros run at least 2x faster in Excel with win XP under Parallels, than in my Dell XPS 1210, with 4 Gb RAM and under win Vista.

 

[RufusT]

To the original poster:

I just bought the 4G kit from Crucial for about $60 total including tax. I have VMWare and I got the extra memory for this purpose.

And thanks to the others re:McAfee. I def won't install it. I was leary anyway since I've used Norton in the past and hated it.