How to have Parallels fill window on screen

[hilmartor]

Hi,

Since upgrading I lost the ability to have Parallels follow the size of the window on screen. I could drag one corner and it would re-size properly. How can I turn this feature on?

Thanx

[coreyjf]

WHich guest os are you using.

[Ankou]

Hello hilmartor
I recommend you to reinstall Parallels Tools.

[hilmartor]

I re-installed Parallels tools but same problem. If I try to make the window bigger I get a black border inside the window around XP.

I am running Mac Os 10.4.9 and Parallels 3.0 (build 4128).

Any idea?

-Hilmar

[wingdo]

Can you post a screen shot somewhere and link that to us?

[Kharn]

I've had a similar problem, every time I go into fullscreen mode I'm left with the OS X menu bar at the top of the screen and my dock icons. It is quite irritating to have OS X overlaid onto my Window's environment. I've installed and reinstalled tools several times but to no avail. :confused:

[cmayaud]

I had the same problem ... you have to uncheck the "Change Mac OS Xresolution" box in the center of the "Appearance" Tab in the Preferences

[hilmartor]

I think that did the trick. Thanks cmayaud!

-Hilmar

[Kharn]

Toggling that on or off makes no difference in my situation. It's frustrating to try and select desktop items in Windows when the OS X Parallels Menu is overlaid the entire top of my screen, not to mention having the dock smack dab in the center of my bottom screen.

Any other ideas?

[Rachel Faith]

I have a couple of questions for you. As I have spent that last 72 hours exclusively trying to solve my video / mouse problem.

Is this a fresh VM or did you upgrade from 2.5 or another previous version of Parallels.

Have you attempted to reinstall parallels from the MAC side? It will not remove the hdd files.

Please post any and all other steps taken, several of us are having like problems and Parallels is aware of it but having difficulty duplicating these errors. Perhaps with a cascade of information, we will stumble upon the common denominator.

[Kharn]

I upgraded from 2.5, running it off a boot camp partition, and already tried reinstalling tools.

[Rachel Faith]

Mine too was an upgrade. But a regular VM not bootcamp, so this helps narrow it down. It worked fine in 2.5 right?

[Kharn]

Of course. :D

[NessyUK]

I now have this. I upgraded to 3 yesterday and was enjoying full screen on my second monitor. I use a bootcamp partition.

Today when I booted up I found I could no longer fill the screen or make the OS Window bigger than my macbook screen.

I have not tried reinstalling Tools yet, will try that when I am back at work .....

[Rachel Faith]

So you upgraded and it worked fine, but after a reboot, then the problem began? That is similar to my experience. When I go thru the hastle of uninstalling and reinstalling, it works... but only for that session. If I reboot, it goes back to not working and I am forced to uninstall and reinstall again to get things to work for that sesion. Same for you ?

[NessyUK]

Hi Rachel = yep thats how it worked for me.

However, I have just reinstalled Parallels Tools as I am trying to solve my 'no doc-icons' problem and the full-screen is back. I will still wait to see what happens when I am back at work with a dual-screen. It did not solve my 'no dock-icons' :0(

Will keep playing and keep an eye on whether it goes again......

[Rachel Faith]

I have done every possible reinstall in every way ever suggested and the problem always returns after a reboot... even when I can trick it to sort of work for a session. It costs me an hour or two per day of down time on this machine.

[dragonkat]

Rachel,

You have more than one OS listed. Is your issue with openSUSE10.2?

[Rachel Faith]

Mine is with XP... I have NOT risked upgrading my NON XP VMs yet.

[dragonkat]

You were able to update parallels tools in XP, no issue with the install?

[Rachel Faith]

No I was NOT... I have no Mouse Sync and No Video Control... And while those problems exist, I get lags... Disable my drivers, and then it WORKS with no Lags... Go figure.

[dragonkat]

This may sound silly to you but, did you make a copy of the vm before installing the update?

Have you uninstalled the machine that is not working and replaced it with your pre update copy, and tried to reinstall parallels (can you download a new copy of the up date ... maybe your original download was corrupted in some way)?

[Rachel Faith]

Sadly, since all the other upgrades were flawless, I did not bother.... Ugh.

[chipili]

Let the data flood continue:

MacBook Pro, Mac 10.4.9, Parallels 4128, XP Pro, upgrade from 2.5

Same symptoms as above, resizing VM as OS Window and XP keeps its size (unlike 2.5 that re-sized dynamically).

Switch to full screen and size stays the same. Resize XP [props/settings] to say mac 1680 x 1050 and fine so long as I stay full screen.

Have tried Parallels Desktop / Prefs / Appearance / Full Screen - no improvement.

Seemed to work OK after "upgrade" but has gone bad on re-boot.

Switch back to OS Window and the screen does not resize so I loose big chunks of screen.

[Simonsy]

Same thing is happening for me. It's a new install and I can't see the bottom of the VM screen to resize it .

Simons

[w7ox]

I had this problem. Went to Display in Control Panel and set it to 1024x711. After that, and maybe a restart on WinXP it has worked fine.

Phil