My fellow Floridian, You can install games in your Parallels virtual PC machine. They will always be faster in Bootcamp than in Parallels, for the obvious reason that they are running natively instead of in a virtual bottle. However, Parallels is pretty fast, and if you're having mouse trouble in Bootcamp, you'll be much happier switching to Parallels, anyway -- plus you won't have to reboot and all that jazz.
And yes, you can delete the Bootcamp partition and reclaim that space. Just use the Bootcamp Assistant. Backup your Mac partition first, just in case, but there shouldn't be any trouble. Best of luck, Felix On Aug 18, 10:36 am, "Papa" <papas...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Recently, my son bought me the iMac with OSX. I am new to Machintosh and > still learning. I didn't like the starting and re-starting between > Operating systems to use Windows XP and MS Office 2007, so I installed the > Parallels program. > > Windows worked OK in Bootcamp but had to wait for a couple minutes to load. > Then the mouse seems to have a mind of its own and freezes and/or jumps all > over when in Bootcamp. That was annoying to have to stop and start to > switch between the Machintosh and Windows. With Paralleles it is no problem > and Windows runs much faster than in Bootcamp. > > My question is... now that I have Parallels installed can PC games be used > outside of Bootcamp? I have been running games in the Bootcamp partition > and still have the occasional problem with the cursor. I know I could try > it but thought I would get some opinions from some knowledgeable folks that > may know, before doing that... > > The next question is... If that works, Can Bootcamp be removed? > > What are your opinions, ideas or suggestions? > > Papasan > Cantonment, FL > papas...@bellsouth.net. > > - - - - > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: imaclist@googlegroups.com [mailto:imacl...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > > Of Tom Coradeschi > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:22 AM > To: imaclist@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: iMac and Office problems > > At 3:54 PM -0700 08/16/2010, Art wrote: > >My wife has an aluminum iMac, two gig speed, one gig RAM. A copy of > >Microsoft Office-Family & Student Edition is installed on. After the > >last update to Office, all the programs, Word, Excel, etc. began > >crashing. Sometimes you can actually get a document opened before it > >crashes but usually just the startup screen. I've reinstalled Office > >(made sure I had the right serial number) plus all the updates--no > >joy. This set up worked fine previously. I also have the same setup on > >a MacBook (also 2 gig) that continues to work fine. > > Back in the OS9 days, trashing the preferences file for MS Office > would cure a myriad of woes. Go to Home->Library->Preferences and > look for anything with the word microsoft in the name, delete it, > empty the trash and then see what happens. Can't hurt! > -- > > tom coradeschi > tc...@skylands.ibmwr.org > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is athttp://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtmland our netiquette > guide is athttp://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
