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<blockquote data-quote="cfpendock" data-source="post: 1318624" data-attributes="member: 220876">Thank you very much for your response.&nbsp; I will use your helpful comments to plan my next moves:1. I will try VMWare - I see they do a trial version. Especially as Parallels is set to auto-start the VM so it is not obvious how to set the RAM allocation, and even if it was, I would be nervous about critically reducing the performance of the OSX.2. I will upgrade the RAM to 8 GB - it is an inexpensive option which I feel may help.3. Buy an old pc to operate my Corel (!!!!)I am aware that the original XP is 10 years old, but it is precisely because the follow ups were so bad that I continued to buy software for XP - which of course continued to be (and still is) available.&nbsp; And XP SP3 is certainly much less than 10 years old. That is why I am surprised that there is no longer any support for it.&nbsp; Of course I could buy windows 7 professional which would work in XP mode, but I understand that this also works as a virtual machine so I think that I would still have the same problems.I'll post my results - but it may take a few days to get the extra RAM.&nbsp; Once again, many thanks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cfpendock, post: 1318624, member: 220876"] Thank you very much for your response. I will use your helpful comments to plan my next moves: 1. I will try VMWare - I see they do a trial version. Especially as Parallels is set to auto-start the VM so it is not obvious how to set the RAM allocation, and even if it was, I would be nervous about critically reducing the performance of the OSX. 2. I will upgrade the RAM to 8 GB - it is an inexpensive option which I feel may help. 3. Buy an old pc to operate my Corel (!!!!) I am aware that the original XP is 10 years old, but it is precisely because the follow ups were so bad that I continued to buy software for XP - which of course continued to be (and still is) available. And XP SP3 is certainly much less than 10 years old. That is why I am surprised that there is no longer any support for it. Of course I could buy windows 7 professional which would work in XP mode, but I understand that this also works as a virtual machine so I think that I would still have the same problems. I'll post my results - but it may take a few days to get the extra RAM. Once again, many thanks. [/QUOTE]

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