Let's download the demo for the latest version of Parallels, upgrade my existing install, then run the uninstaller from THAT dmg. If you've bought a copy of Parallels within the last 30 days, you get to ask questions, any longer than that and it's, 'fuck you, pay more'. What is that? Turns out to ask them questions, you pay cashy money. But wait, one of the areas to fill out is *support code*. You have to fill out 5 dropdown menus, read a wall of text about possible existing knowledgebase articles, then click submit, then fill out 12 text boxes and 13 more dropdown menus. Turns out you can't just 'send' them a fucking support request. So I figure let's ask Parallels themselves. There are people on the parallels support forums asking the exact same question, with no response. It appears that no one has done a complete manual uninstall of Parallels Desktop 4 for Mac and lived to tell the tale. Do some terminal commands 'after' doing 1 or 2. Absolutely no help from the parallels support pages. Ok, so I figure it's a simple matter of looking at how to remove it manually. Who the fuck keeps dmg files around? Nobody does. You need to have the install CD, or the dmg from when you downloaded the app originally (as I did). I figure parallels has an 'uninstall' function built in like 99% of other apps, or you could just drag the file from 'applications' to your trash can right? Wrong. After a kill -9, I figured time to uninstall Parallels, since I haven't used it in over a year, and this particular install is a few versions of OSX old. There was a parallels oriented process that was taking up 100% of my Mac's processor usage (prl_disp_service if you must know), as well as killing my battery. I swear to Flying Motherfucking Spaghetti Ass Monster, I haven't encountered anything this bad since trying to a complete uninstall of the Norton 'suite' of products on Windows XP.

It turns out trying to remove Parallels is like trying to remove cancer.

I do not have the dmg file that it came with, because everyone on the planet WITHOUT a stick up their ass, do not save dmg files. All I want to do is uninstall your fucking product.

Delete parallels from mac