Ok here is the situation. (I have searched high and low and if there is an answer to this, I dont know where to find it). I have Windows 7 Pro installed on a Boot Camp Partition on my macbook pro.

When I try and boot the same partition and installation within Parallels Desktop, it says that I need to revalidate. It fails the automatic validation. If I call and activate, will it mess up Windows within Boot Camp?

I then select the Harddrive as my boot choice, and the windows logo appears, with a nice little loader. However, after a few seconds I get a Blue screen of death, and everything restarts, and back to the Please insert a bootable disk. Question: Q: Where is the Windows Phone App for Mac and how do I update it? I upgraded to El Capitan the day before yesterday and now my Windows Phone App for Mac doesn't detect my Windows 8.1 phone. I am now unable to sync my phone or even detect my phone through Find My Phone.

I use windows for two things. I play games (I own way to many steam games than I care to admit). For that, I am very happy using boot camp for the best speed.

Second, I write cross platform software and this is why I would like to be able to boot windows using Parallels for those times I just want to test something real quick, but dont want to reboot my whole computer. Any help would be great as this is driving me crazy. I appreciate your response, but there is one major flaw though. I is not like uninstalling and reinstalling on another machine. Sims 4 for mac trial. It is a single installation. Whatever windows thinks is wrong.

Maybe its Microsoft’s fault, maybe its the virtualization companies' fault. Either way, for me it is a problem. All of this boils down to one simple issue: Many people, like myself, installed a single, legitimate copy of windows and can't use it the way we want. I am sure that some of you will argue about what we 'want', but it doesn't seem to me to be unreasonable to expect to be able to use my Boot Camp installation of windows in a virtual environment. I think it is worth talking about the big picture here.

Some of you may be asking 'why would you want to do this anyways?' , well for me it is simple. Most of the applications I use on a daily basis are OS X only.

That means that I spend most of my time in OS X. I write software for the iPhone and got a copy of windows to look at maybe writing some of my stuff for windows mobile 7. I installed it in Boot Camp to get native speeds since compiling in a virtual environment seems silly. Using windows in a virtual environment when peak performance is not needed is perfectly fine for my purposes.

Darin, you hit the nail on the head, 'The question, as I see it, is you want to us the same install of Windows 7, sometimes in Boot Camp and sometimes in Parallels.' (I added the bold and underline) Is this going to keep me from ever using windows again? No, thats just dumb.

Will it realistically limit the amount of time programming in windows? I now try and determine how much time I have to code, and weigh that against rebooting my computer a few times to read code in OS X and translate it in windows. Hello FityP, We have explained the issue and what we believe the Licensing behind it is. There is little point discussing this further in a support forum since if the licensing is, in fact, as we interpreted, this is not something that Support can 'Fix'. The only resolution that would allow you to use one copy of Windows on two computers (Virtual or Physical) would be to change the Windows Licensing which Support has no authorization to do. The fix for your issue is to use two copies of Windows.

One for each computer (as described in the Windows 7 End User Licensing Agreement). If you wish to further discuss this topic, it will need to be done in the Feedback and Comments section of this forum or in another forum in which the discussion is On Topic. As to Mike's issue, this is a consumer support forum. If you have an Enterprise support issue, I would recommend either posting in the Technet/MSDN Server forums or contacting Microsoft Enterprise support ( ) Thank you, Darin MS.

'FityP' wrote in message. Ok here is the situation. (I have searched high and low and if there is an answer to this, I dont know where to find it). I have Windows 7 Pro installed on a Boot Camp Partition on my macbook pro. What software comes with the mac pro for photography editing. When I try and boot the same partition and installation within Parallels Desktop, it says that I need to revalidate. It fails the automatic validation. If I call and activate, will it mess up Windows within Boot Camp?

I use windows for two things. I play games (I own way to many steam games than I care to admit).