G'day all, I turned on Mac Look in the Configure options for my virtual machine, but don't like it, and turned it off. But it won't go away... Am I stuck with it forever, or is this a bug. I have tried : turning it on and off again. Turning it off, quitting and restarting parallels, checking it is still off and then starting the vm changing the desktop settings from within windows. I occasionally get an error message when changing the windows display properties (the Windows and buttons Appearance option from Windows Classic style to Windows XP style) 'Applying Visual Styles Error - The visual styles could not be applied. Access is denied' (In case the picture didn't work) cheers Ben
Hello benmadin, 2 suggestions: a. try to switch theme in Windows XP b. try to reinstall Parallels Tools (remove from Add/Remove programs, restart Windows, Virtual Machine menu > Install Parallels Tools)
Thanks - a) didn't work for me (I haven't tried b). What did work was switching the View to Window, and then one of the menus had a Use MacLook option. It wasn't ticked, but when I turned it on the computer groaned for a few seconds and looked exactly the same. Then when I turned it off it changed the theme through Windows 98 to the standard Windows XP interface look. Subsequent switching back into Coherence / Crystal modes seems to have preserved this outcome, including after a shutdown of parallels and restart. cheers Ben
MacLook is in fact "Stardock colors". so removing Stardock colors from control panel would work. http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?96737-MacLook-irreversible
4+ years later and your solution, Ben, still works for someone who just encountered this problem after updating to Windows 7 (from XP) and Parallels 9 (from 6).