Win7 on parallels getting slower and slower

Hi,
I installed a win7 system thru Parallels on my mac mini (mid 2010), 4G ram. It works fine and fast at first, but now, 3 months after, the win is getting slower and slower.
I checked the task manager in win7, the cpu usage is lower than 40% at most time, and the used memory is around 700~800M, I assigned 1G to parallels.
Any idea about this? Or I have to reinstall the win7 because it just a WINDOWS???
Cheers

If you're using up to 800MB on a 1GB system, Windows has no headroom for the tasks you're doing with it. It has to do a lot of disk swapping to maintain memory availability. Assign it 2GB RAM, and if you only have a 4GB Mac consider upgrading to 8GB so you can keep the VM running whenever you want it. I give Windows 7 4GB and 4 cores on my Mac Pro, and it's fast enough to do video editing on the types of files (MPEG2 with AC3 audio) that Mac OS software doesn't fully support.

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