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Re: VirtualBox--I wish....

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Wes Groleau wrote:
> On 11-24-2013, 17:20, ErikRS wrote:
>> You can... Switch to VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop.:-)
>
> Had the fusion free trial.  It has its own quirks.  At least it was more
> stable than the VMWare workstation I had to use on the job.
>
> Might try Parallels if they have a trial offer.  But I never run Windows
> at home anyway--I installed it on someone else's new Mac
> to ease their transition.

There is a trial here:
<http://www.parallels.com/downloads/desktop/>

I use Parallels Desktop on my MacPro and it's working great. Especially 
one feature suites me very well. PD+Win will recognize *ANY* external 
Firewire and/or USB disk as 'shared disks' which means that such disks 
are recognized as network disks and you normally don't need to add them 
to the Parallels disk manager. - But if they don't show up, it's just to 
add the disks in the manager with their name, and afterwards it's easy 
to enable/disable as you like to.

Also this kind of handling the external Mac disks do allow you to both 
READ and WRITE to/from these disks without having to think of any 
differences in the disk structure. - And when/if you're using MSWord 
2010 Windows, StarOffice Windows, OpenOffice Windows or even WinNotepad 
you can just make a 'save as' directly to a Mac formatted disk and read 
the file from such a Mac formatted disk again if needed!

I use MSO2008 Mac, MSO2003 on my Windows, OpenOffice 4 on both Windows 
and Mac as well as AppleWoirks 6.2.x [Yes, I have AWKS Win 6.2] on both 
Windows and Mac. I've setup each pair as identically as possible, so any 
flows are minimized when using files on each paltform

And hereto... An antivirus app is a must-have on Windows and if you 
chose Avast! Home Free it will automatically include ANY 'shared disks' 
and bootabnle Mac disks and protect the whole network against vira.

Cheers, Erik Richard

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NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com
Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org
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VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-24 13:38 -0500
  Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-11-24 15:41 -0500
    Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-24 17:40 -0500
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-11-25 04:46 -0800
  Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2013-11-24 23:20 +0100
    Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-24 17:38 -0500
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2013-11-25 00:59 +0100
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-11-25 16:59 +0100
        Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-25 20:18 -0500
  Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-24 17:35 -0500
    Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-11-25 16:06 +0100
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-11-25 19:04 +0100
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2013-11-26 07:09 +1100
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-25 20:10 -0500
        Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-11-26 08:09 +0000
          Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-12-10 01:01 -0500
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-12-10 00:55 -0500

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