I use Parallels mainly for my stockprogramm. This gathers all day information about the different stock exchanges. Since there is little use to look at the app all day I "close" the window by choosing "hide". I often have the problem that the app won't react on "show"! This is very troublesome since the only way to terminate Parallels is by a "Force Quit" and that means that a lot of date is lost because Windows is nof told to close all files.