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ek116
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Best Shutdown?

I was wondering what was the best way to turn off Fusion running XP. Should I shut down, then power down, suspend, or just leave it running in the background like mail? I use it just for Dragon and Word but it seems like it's a bit slower than parallels in starting up as well as shutting down. Restarting from the suspended state sounds interesting but seems even slower. Since it's so stable and not a CPU hog, it's tempting to leave it running but just wanted to get others thoughts.

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bgertzfield
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I leave my VM running unless I need the memory, in which case I suspend it.

I never shut down or reboot my VM unless the guest OS needs it for a security update.

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