Parallels

Game Over

One sunny 😎 day I came to a coworking office very early in the morning. As usual, I’ve decided to kick it off with a freshly brewed coffee which we never had, so, I had to go with an instant substitute. Ugh 😣! I was hoping to savour my disgust meditating over the Feedly recents, when I noticed that I was not the only lark that day. Mark, a freelance designer who happened to be a huge fan of Assassin’s Creed games (just like me), was sitting in the corner of the shared kitchen with his laptop, looking so gloomy that I was sorry I didn’t take my ☔️ with me. When I’ve forced the last sip of that potion inside, I wished him good morning and headed to my working nest. He didn’t respond though, which was weird, since he usually was very friendly. I thought he needed some time on his own and was about to leave the kitchen when suddenly he hailed me. Long story short, he seemed to get himself a virus and didn’t know how to get rid of it. He seemed scared, since lots of important files were encrypted.

How I Have Built My Lab

One late evening when my eyes were so difficult to keep open, I’ve decided to setup a Windows Lab on my M1 Mac. Long story short, I couldn’t make Autopsy work as expected and that’s why I had to waste my time on this task…

📆 01/03/2021

⏰ 22:17

First, I had to sign up to Microsoft Insider Program here. It was free and I signed up. Then, I’ve installed Parallels from here using “Try technical preview” option that was available at this point in time. Also, at this point of time a free activation key 🔑 was available for Parallels (thank you 🙏 so much, guys, for this) here. During installation process I was a little bewildered by the question about the use purpose of this software… Gaming or ordinary use (text editing, web-browsing etc). I’ve chosen “Gaming” since I presume Autopsy and software alike do consume much power. However, I’m not sure if this option changes the performance or it’s rather some survey. Anyway. After all that everything worked like a charm. But I still have not tried installing autopsy… So, let’s… .