In Windows . . .the C drive is just a file to the Mac side . . .so you just install apps as you would under Windows. I believe that Parallels has a feature to save the booted condition of the virtual machine; so when you restart Parallels next time instead of booting Windows again it just restores (quicker than booting) the pre-existing saved condition. It's similar to the hibernate feature in Windows. On Sep 6, 2006, at 05:50, Mitchell Senft wrote: > We're contemplating a dual-boot MacBook so Parallels is very > attractive (as opposed to BootCamp). Question is that I've read and > read, including parsing the Parallels start guide, and I still have > no idea exactly it works. Does it have to be booted like an app on > startup every time? And I assume the Win apps get installed where > apps normally get installed? Day to day, how easy is it to use? There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to relating them together is Jello. neil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20060906/b79d60e1/attachment.html