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Parallels Desktop Lite allows users to easily run Window, Linux, and popular applications on your Mac.
Avoid rebooting your Mac to switch between operating systems or when switching between Mac, Windows, or Linux applications.
Note: Existing Parallels Desktop® for Mac users are not recommended to move to Parallels Desktop Lite.
Run Internet Explorer®, Quicken®, QuickBooks, and hundreds of other Windows and Linux applications side by side with macOS apps like Pages® and Keynote®.
Brought to you by the world-class developers of the #1-rated Mac virtualization software.
### Pricing:
Running virtual machines requires an in-app purchase of an auto-renewable subscription (1 year). You can cancel at any time.
There is a fully functional 14-day trial, so you can test Parallels Desktop Lite (including installation and use of Windows) before you commit.
Note: Microsoft Windows is not included and must be purchased separately.
With Parallels Desktop Lite, you can run the following operating systems in a virtual machine on your Mac:
• Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista®, and XP
• macOS Mojave 1014, macOS High Sierra 10.13, macOS Sierra 10.12, OS X El Capitan 10.11, OS X Yosemite 10.10, OS X Mavericks 10.9, OS X Mountain Lion 10.8, and OS X Lion 10.7.x
• Most Linux distributions
System Requirements:
• Late 2011 or newer Mac
• macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 or later
• 4 GB of memory (8 GB recommended)
• 450 MB of disk space on the boot volume (Macintosh HD) for Parallels Desktop installation
• SSD is recommended for best performance
• Additional disk space for virtual machines (varies on operating system installed)
Seamless integration features between Mac and Windows, including productivity boosters built in. These features include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Copy/paste formatted text between macOS, Windows, and Linux
• Drag and drop files between macOS, Windows, and Linux
• Share Mac folders with Windows—including Desktop, Documents, and Downloads—without duplication and saving precious disk space on your Mac
• Resize window to get desired Windows or Linux resolution
• 3D graphics acceleration up to DirectX® 10.1
• Use Mac printers in Windows
• Mouse synchronization enables the mouse to move seamlessly between the macOS, Windows, and Linux
We want you to be completely satisfied with Parallels Desktop Lite. If you have any feedback, problems or concerns, please contact us at https://www.parallels.com/products/lite/support/
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Click on the Parallels icon on Mac menu bar and select Control Center: Right-click on your virtual machine and choose Configure to open its configuration. For Parallels Desktop 14: Go to the Hardware tab, select Hard Disk which requires increasing the size then expand Advanced Settings drop-down menu, then click Properties.
- Normally, there are C drive (system drive), D drive, E drive, and even more chunks on a Windows computer hard drive, and over 90% users adjusted the C drive space once or twice because the free space approached the threshold of 200MB, 80MB, and 50MB.
- When storage space is needed, only the files you recently opened are kept on your Mac, so that you can easily work offline. Files that are stored only in the cloud show a download icon, which you can double-click to download the original file.
RELATED: How to Seamlessly Run Windows Programs on Your Mac with Parallels Parallels includes a helpful wizard that will walk you through this. To open it, launch Parallels, select the virtual machine you want to free up space on, and click File > Free Up Disk Space. This is the most important fact about a Parallels Desktop virtual hard drive: it has a large potential size, but it takes up less space on your Mac, and its actual size can grow or shrink. Have your cake and eat it too! How to run Windows 10 on your Mac using Parallels Desktop 13 If you want to use Windows on your Mac, but don't necessarily want to partition your hard drive, you can run Windows using a virtual machine like Parallels Desktop. Some partition management tools are capable of allocating free space to other partitions, but here only takes one for example. Run PartitionGuru, right click the free space and select the items 'Allocate Free Space To' and 'Partition: Local Disk (C:)'.
What’s New
This update for Parallels Desktop Lite 1.4.0 addresses overall stability and performance issues, and includes the following fixes and improvements:
Performance
• Up to 80 percent faster application launch.
• Up to 30 percent faster suspend operation on APFS partition.
• Up to 130 percent more frames per second in Shared Camera.
Linux support
• Install Ubuntu 18.04, Fedora 28, and Linux Mint 19 in virtual machines right from Parallels Desktop.
• Support for mmap() in Linux Shared Folders.
• New pre-configured virtual machines with Debian GNU/Linux 9 and CentOS 7.
• Resolves an issue with Parallels Tools not installing in openSUSE Leap 15 and Ubuntu Linux.
• Resolves an issue with Parallels Tools not working in Linux virtual machines with X Server 1.20.
• Resolves an issue with Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machines periodically crashing or locking up.
• Resolves an issue with Ubuntu 18.10 virtual machines not installing.
• Resolves an issue with not being able to mount the same shared folder twice in a Linux virtual machine.
Graphics
• The new “Auto” mode for graphics allows Windows to use more than 2 GB of Mac system memory for graphics, while allowing Windows applications to use it when possible.
• Support for OpenGL 3.x in Windows virtual machines.
• Improved the way a virtual machine is displayed on 4K+ monitors:
• reduced the system and graphics memory consumption;
• increased performance when 3D acceleration is turned off.
• Improved the way a virtual machine is displayed on multiple monitors when the macOS “Displays have separate Spaces” option is turned off.
Ready for macOS 10.14 Mojave
• Parallels Desktop Lite supports Dark Mode.
• Use the virtual machine’s Edit menu to insert pictures from your iPhone or iPad into Windows applications.
• Quick Look in Windows has the same functionality as that in macOS.
• Parallels Desktop Lite uses the Mojave technology to take screenshots.
Integration with Mac
• Use your Mac’s camera that supports up to 4K resolutions in a virtual machine
• Use the Touch Bar to work with more Windows applications.
• The size of the virtual machine hard disk (.hdd file) is optimized by means of native Windows defragmentation.
Security
• Backing up a virtual machine with Time Machine has been simplified. Now if you want to add a virtual machine to the backup list or exclude it from this list, just do what you need in the Time Machine preferences.
• Backing up a virtual machine with Acronis True Image has been improved.
Usability
• Easier way to get help from Parallels - click Help > Support Center to access the webpage where you can find the most popular knowledgeable articles, links to the Parallels forums, social media and technical documentation, get personalized support and much more.
• The “Free Up Disk Space” dialog has been redesigned and simplified. Now you can use it to reduce the amount of disk space occupied by all your virtual machines.
• A paused virtual machine resumes automatically when you drag a file to its window.
• As most of Windows customers have switched from Windows 8 to Windows 10, the “Enable swipe from edges” option is disabled by default in order not to confuse users.
• Windows Maintenance feature has been improved.
• For new virtual machines, the SmartGuard backup functionality now keeps 3 snapshots by default (not to occupy additional disk space).
• The Resource Monitor has been redesigned. Use it to check how much CPU and memory is consumed by your Mac and all virtual machines.
• Monitor the virtual machine CPU usage in the virtual machine status bar.
• When you click a macOS notification that a technical data report has been sent, the report ID is automatically copied to the clipboard.
Support for keyboard layouts
• Improved support for the German keyboard layout.
• Improved support for the Japanese keyboard layout.
• Added support for the Brazilian Portuguese keyboard layout.
Best option for Mac OS X (when it was free)
I'm only interested in running Linux occasionally in a guest on my Mac and it seems to be significantly faster than VirtualBox (at least when it comes to handling the retina display). Taking a star off as the lastest update requires a yearly subscription, although I've been given 1 year trial as an existing user (thanks!). I have a year to think about, try other options, but it looks like buying Parallels Desktop directly (one-off payment, possibly with the occasional upgrade) is still cheaper than the Parallels Desktop *Lite* subscription (from which Apple probably grabs a bing chunk).
Shame it now requires a subscription
I've been playing around with Ubuntu a bit, mostly for fun. Parallels Lite was decent for that when it was free, but, unless I fine a killer use for it before my year's free subscription is over, it's highly unlikely I'll want to pay a £74 per year subscription after that.
Unable to upgrade via Lite
I used the 14 day trial to test this out, and was pretty impressed. It allows you to work seemlessly between mac and windows applications. I was impressed enough to upgrade to the annual subscription. This has not worked for me, and it appears that the only option is to purchase the full desktop package from the website, outside the app store. This is a more expensive product than quoted in the app, and means I need to manage the subscription separately.
Not very impressed, and still deciding whether I want the hassle.
I’m very supprised that I can not follow the upgrade model offered in the app, but from speaking to your online support there seems to be no way to resolve this issue.
Developer Response,
Dear RichardGWood, Thank you very much for the review and please accept our apologies for the inconvenience you have had. Please drop us an email at dg@parallels.com and our support will look into this for you. Thanks, Parallels Team
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'How can I increase my C drive space without erasing data? Recently, a 'low disk space' pop-out balloon keeps appearing in the Systray, warning me to extend the C drive.
I can neither format the C drive nor delete other partitions as I have data saved on all my partitions. So how can I possibly increase the C drive without formatting or deleting partitions?'
In Windows 10, 8.1, 8 and 7, the running speed of an operating system largely depends on the available free space in C drive. Usually, over 90% of users adjusted the C drive space once or twice because the free space approached the threshold of 200MB, 80MB, and 50MB.
On this page, you'll learn how to effectively increase C drive with automated partition manager software.
Things You Need
- EaseUS Partition Master - reputable partition manager software (For Choice 1)
- EaseUS Todo PCTrans - reliable PC transfer software (For Choice 2)
- New Hard Drive (For Choice 3)
Ways of Extending C Drive
Here is a list of ways that people apply to increase C drive space. You can choose one and follow through the process to make your system drive bigger:
60% Choice - Add Space to C Drive
A direct solution is to add free space to the C drive. You can shrink or delete partitions like D, E, F, to leave enough unallocated space for extending C drive. To protect your saved data, we'd like to recommend you use professional partition manager software to shrink partition instead of deletion partitions.
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EaseUS Partition Master will assist you in shrinking non-system partition and add space to the C drive without causing damage to saved data on Windows PC. Here is a step-by-step instruction for you to follow:
Step 1: Launch EaseUS Partition Master
Step 2: Add space to the System C drive
1. Shrink partition and leave unallocated space for extending C: drive:
- Right-click on a partition next to the C: drive and select 'Resize/Move'.
- Drag the end of the partition that is next to the C: drive and shrink it, leaving unallocated space next to the system C: drive, and click 'OK'.
2. Right-click on the System C: drive and select 'Resize/Move'.
To add space to the C: drive, drag the system partition end into the unallocated space.
Step 3: Confirm to extend system C drive
How To Add More Space To Your Computer
Click the 'Execute Operation' button, it will list the pending operations, and click 'Apply' to execute the changes and extend the C drive.
30% Choice - Free Up C Drive Space
There are many ways that can free up C drive space. The main idea is to clear useless junk files, move saved files and transfer installed programs to other drives so to free up space on the system partition.
Follow the following 3 stages to free up space on your system C drive:
# 1. Clear junk files
Useless junk files, outdated system data, temporary files, cache data, etc., all these files will take huge space on C drive. EaseUS Partition Master enables you to clear these junk files on C drive within 3 simple steps:
Step 1: Launch EaseUS Partition Master. Select 'Tools' and click 'System Optimization'.
Step 2: Click 'Junk File Cleanup'. Then you can click 'Analyze' to let EaseUS Partition Master find junk files on your PC.
Step 3: You can check and choose junk files and click Clean up. All of the selected junk files will be cleaned and deleted from your PC. Click 'Yes' to clean up junk files.
# 2. Move saved big files from C drive to other non-system partition
You can check the C partition, manually copy and paste saved big files on the C drive to other secure free partitions.
You can follow the below steps to locate and move the saved big files to other partition:
Step 1: Press 'Windows + I' to open Windows Settings, click on 'System' and ' Storage'.
Step 2: Under 'Storage', select the C: drive to analyze. (Note that the 'This PC' drive is the main computer's hard drive where Windows 10 is installed.)
Step 3: Click the Item name such as 'Documents', Desktop, Apps & games, etc. to locate the saved big files.
Click 'View' to check and copy the specific saved big files on C drive.
Step 4: Move these files to another non-system partition by 'Copy & Paste'. Then delete the original useless files on C drive.
# 3. Transfer installed programs, software from C drive to another drive
As you know that installed programs and software will also take huge space on the C drive. Professional PC transfer software such as EaseUS Todo PCTrans will effectively migrate your installed programs to another drive without reinstallation.
You can follow this link: transfer programs from C drive to D drive as a tutorial guide.
10% Choice - Upgrade System Disk to A Bigger Hard Drive
When the system disk gets old after using for a very long period, the C: drive will get full and the computer performance will slow down. To resolve this issue, the best way is to upgrade and replace the system disk with a bigger new hard drive.
EaseUS Partition Master enables you to effectively upgrade system disk to a bigger one by cloning disk. By doing so, you'll be able to move everything including Windows OS, saved data, installed programs to the new hard drive at one time. Also, you'll be able to get more free space for C drive.
Step 1: Select the source disk.
Open EaseUS Partition Master. Right-click the disk that you want to copy or clone. Then, select 'Clone'.
Step 2: Select the target disk.
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Choose the wanted HDD/SSD as your destination and click 'Next' to continue.
Step 3: View the disk layout and edit the target disk partition size.
Then click 'Continue' when the program warns it will wipe out all data on target disk. (Back up valuable data in advance.)
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You can select 'Autofit the disk', 'Clone as the source' or 'Edit disk layout' to customize your disk layout. (Select the last one if you want to leave more space for C drive.)
Step 4: Execute the operation.
Click the 'Execute the operation' option and click 'Apply' to start the disk cloning process.