Parallel Desktop + Windows on Mac

[hifi]

i need to open some .exe file on my mac so I went ahead and downloaded the trial version of parallel desktop and it gave me the option of choosing which os i wanted to use so i chose windows 8 (which was the first out of just a few options) and all in all it took 4 hours to get everything running just to do such a simple task. i remember downloading PD a while back/one of the earlier versions and it rann incredibly smooth, with windows 8 my entire computer is going reallly really slow, i can't even really see what i am typing right now. any other " operating systems " out there that I could download that take up waaaaay less cpu and gigs off my hd? im down to 59gb on my macbook .. i m not sure how this hwole thing works but i remember it asking that i could open up some .dmg or .iso file or something im not sure i just want like windows 1 or something that will run on my comp as smoothly as having another tab open in my browser.. pls help

[Electric_Head]

Windows XP is probably the lightest option to run with Parallel.
You get XP performance version which is heavily stripped down to just the essential elements.

[hifi]

thanky ou

[Electric_Head]

I just thought I'd add Wine and Crossover as viable wrappers rather than parallel desktop.

http://mac.appstorm.net/how-to/virtuali ... e-bottler/
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/

WINE is free whereas crossover has a free trial.

[horsefeather]

use wine it is very easy to use and it work with a lot of exe files

[hifi]

will definitely look into it