I like to run along the edge and when it comes to technology, I don't mind being on my own. Sometimes, though that leads me into trouble. A little bit of background...
I am currently using a Macbook Pro 17inch, and running Bootcamp and Parallels Desktop.
I am running Windows 7. You may have heard that running Windows 7 and Revit is not a supported environment.
As a Mac user, I upgraded along with many others to the new Snow Leopard OS, mainly for the Exchange Support since email seems to be my life.
I am also a Parallels Desktopuser. I like running in Parallels mainly because my new Magic Mouse works (no Windows drivers yet for the Mouse so I cannot use the scroll functions when running in Bootcamp), and I can do a few more things on the Mac side.
Before I talk about the problem I ran into, I do not recommend running in a unsupported environment. I do not need to produce construction documents, if I did, I would be running in a Supported Environment.
Everything in my setup was running great up, until last night. I decided to add one more thing to the list. We support running Parallels Desktop Version 4 with a VM of XP or Vista and Revit on a Mac using Leopard (not Snow Leopard), but last night I downloaded and installed the newest version of Parallels, Version 5. I was hopefully that because Parallels supports Windows 7 with Version 5 that things might run a little bit faster now. Hey, it was working with Windows 7 before, why not.
After upgrading, which wasn't difficult, and updating my copy of Parallels Tools that is running on my Bootcamp partition, I started checking email and going about my business as I normally do. Everything was fine, and I was liking the new version of Parallels, until I started Revit.
Restarted the VM and Bingo, problem solved.

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