Mountain Lion and Parallels Desktop 7

When I updated My Late 2011 Macbook Air to Mountain Lion, I could not open Parallels Desktop 7 any more.
It would say that it cannot be used with this version of OS X.
Does it mean I have to buy a better version of Parallels?
What should I do?
I dont want to buy it again

roro again,
Reinstalling parallels is a different issue to reinstalling windows on parallels.
Keep you existing virtual machines and when parallels is re-installed use the create virtual machine menu to add an existing machine, when it asks you if this is a copy or you have moved it, reply 'moved' so that windows activation is satisfied that it is the same machine.
If reloading Parallels tools doesn't work for you, or if you can't get Parallels to start at all, I suggest uninstall then reinstall as it will create a clean copy of parallels. You may have to re-register/activate again with parallels but this is free and a relatively small effort.
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