Parallels tools Windows 8.1 - how to manually uninstall / re-install?

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by Joshka, Oct 24, 2013.

  1. Joshka

    Joshka Junior Member

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    Hi,
    I've been butting up against the following issue installing parallels tools.
    I ran into a number of issues with running parallels in full screen (missing icons in the dock, Cmd+Tab no longer changing to programs in the VM, inability to access the menubar from the fullscreen mode, networking intermittently failing, etc.). I figured that uninstalling and reinstalling the tools might help.
    The uninstall failed with an error message (which I unfortunately did not catch), but seemed to succeed according to the programs and features list.
    Re-installing the tools now fails and provides a helpful message box pointing to troubleshooting page, which doesn't exist.
    This looks like it's probably going to be stuff that is left around by the failed uninstall. Is there a way of fixing this manually?

    Edit:
    It seems the kb article was using en_AU in the URL, rather than en_US. Fixing this leads to the correct kb article!
     
  2. Joshka

    Joshka Junior Member

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    link to kb from dialog:
    parallels.com/au/products/desktop/supportinfo/pdfm9_en_AU_PToolsRollback
    should be:
    parallels.com/au/products/desktop/supportinfo/pdfm9_en_US_PToolsRollback
    which is a redirect for:
    http://kb.parallels.com/111730
     
    Last edited: Oct 24, 2013

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