Back to what worked or forward to the new version. It's possible that version 5 was OK with some prior version of OS X and you are (re?) discovering a bug that Parallels may know of. I see they sell an upgrade to 7 at their site.
But it's still a wild guess since they have all the code and get the most support calls so back to them.
Bob
I'm on a Macbook Pro, OS X 10.6.8 with 6 GB of RAM, and I'm getting rather tired of having Parallels' prls_dsp lock up and start sucking up 98% of my processor cycles, even though Parallels isn't running. I've been using Activity Monitor to force quit it in order to get back to normal operations, but that does then require a reboot in order to use Parallels. Short of deleting Parallels completely, anybody have any suggestions to solve the issue? I'm on Parallels 5, btw.

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