<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">In Windows . . .the C drive is just a file to the Mac side . . .so you just install apps as you would under Windows.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 6, 2006, at 05:50, Mitchell Senft wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">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?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>neil</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>