Re: Parallels and XP upgrade OX

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Burton
/2013, at 10:30 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Chris, I'm pleased to hear the GIS workshop was very good and Parallels with XP SP3 worked perfectly. Re: Upgrading to Lion or Mountain Lion from OS X 10.6.8. Your MacBook Pro is capable of running the latest OS X 10.7 Lion

Re: Parallels and XP upgrade OX

2013-07-30 Thread Chris Burton
Hi Ronni Well the GIS workshop was very good, very intensive and enjoyable. And, Parallels with XP and SP3 on the mac worked perfectly!! In fact of the 20 participants, 5 were using macs, and it seemed while some of the PC's in the room had troubles the macs just kept working! Thanks very

Re: Parallels and XP upgrade OX

2013-07-30 Thread Tim Law
, at 9:25 AM, Chris Burton c...@it.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Well the GIS workshop was very good, very intensive and enjoyable. And, Parallels with XP and SP3 on the mac worked perfectly!! In fact of the 20 participants, 5 were using macs, and it seemed while some of the PC's in the room

Re: Parallels and XP upgrade OX

2013-07-30 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Chris, I'm pleased to hear the GIS workshop was very good and Parallels with XP SP3 worked perfectly. Re: Upgrading to Lion or Mountain Lion from OS X 10.6.8. Your MacBook Pro is capable of running the latest OS X 10.7 Lion and Mountain Lion OS X 10.8. Unfortunately Lion (OS X 10.7

Re: Parallels and XP upgrade OX

2013-07-30 Thread Ronni Brown
...@mac.com wrote: Hi Chris, I'm pleased to hear the GIS workshop was very good and Parallels with XP SP3 worked perfectly. Re: Upgrading to Lion or Mountain Lion from OS X 10.6.8. Your MacBook Pro is capable of running the latest OS X 10.7 Lion and Mountain Lion OS X 10.8. Unfortunately Lion

Re: Parallels and XP

2013-07-21 Thread Chris Burton
Hi Ronni Thanks very much Ronni. I now have ArcGIS 10.1 installed after about 2 hours of pain! Have you used this software before Ronni? I havnt, so am not even sure how to start it as there were no icons installed in the start menu or on the desktop. I will have a look online and at the Esri

Re: Parallels and XP

2013-07-21 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Chris, If Parallels is saying Update Now... Yes it is imperative the update is done now. In Parallels Desktop if you use an expanding virtual hard disk in your virtual machine, its image file size on the physical hard disk increases as you add new data to the virtual hard disk. If you

Re: Parallels and XP

2013-07-21 Thread Curtis Peter
Hi Tim Have been out all day so have only just read your email! I am the same, using OziExplorer with the Hema Navigator and Parallels! It's a pain in the (whatever) I am going to give Crossover a try after your comments and was wondering if you could remember the help site you spoke of? Also

Re: Parallels and XP

2013-07-21 Thread Chris Burton
Hi Ronni Thanks very much for the info on parallels, I will take time to do the update: about 350mb. Also will then look at expanding my virtual disk which I think is only 25gb when I set it up? Hopefully this week-long workshop on GIS in marine ecology will improve my understanding of using

Parallels and XP

2013-07-20 Thread Chris Burton
Morning muggers Its been awhile and I hope everyone are well I have a dilemma that is now quite urgent regarding running new GIS software on parallels (updated to version 8) which has XP. The software is large (ArcGIS) and system requirements say anything from XP professional home edition

Re: Parallels and XP

2013-07-20 Thread Tim Law
Chris, I have only one PC programme that I ever want to use on my Mac, and that is the mapping programme OziExplorer. It works okay on Parallels and Windows various versions, but it is such a pain having to start up Windows, get all the updates in order and 'cope' with a whole new layer of

Re: Parallels and XP

2013-07-20 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Chris, Good suggestion by Tim, might be worth a try depending on which version of ArcGIS you have. You can get a trial version of Crossover (I think) to try. It doesn't look very promising though with this search below. Known NOT to work in ArcGIS 10, 9.2 and untested in version 8.3 :

Re: Parallels and XP

2013-07-20 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi again Chris, Sorry, as I presumed you were in a rush to get a reply, I had not read all your email thoroughly. My Reply in Situ below On 21/07/2013, at 10:04 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: The software is large (ArcGIS) and system requirements say anything from XP professional home

Re: Parallels and XP

2013-07-20 Thread Chris Burton
Hi Ronni You read my mind as I was literally typing my reply!! I just checked and I have XP but with only SP2! I will follow your advice and download and install the SP3 and let you know how it goes Thanks heaps for your advice on this Ronni Best regards Chris Christopher L.K. Burton

Re: Parallels and XP

2013-07-20 Thread Chris Burton
Hi Ronni I now have SP3 installed on Windows XP: Thanks heaps Ronni and Tim I will now try to install ArcGIS 10.1 and see what happens... Best regards Chris On 21/07/2013, at 11:35 AM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Ronni You read my mind as I was literally typing my reply!! I just checked

Re: Parallels and XP

2013-07-20 Thread Ronda Brown
Did you check it was WindowsXP Professional you already had installed? And you now have WindowsXP Professional SP3? Also Run Windows Update and install all updates... Security updates etc. Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 21/07/2013, at 12:49 PM, Chris Burton c...@it.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I now

parallels and XP

2008-02-27 Thread Kevin Lock
My wife uses XP to run a sewing machine program along with a WACOM tablet. We have loaded XP onto a MacBook and it looks OK, but when we loaded the latest driver for the tablet the pen does not respond. The Tablet Model is: CTF-420 and the program is 4D Sketch. Any ides for me on this