Unable to Hide Parallels

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by mavakil, Feb 22, 2008.

  1. mavakil

    mavakil Member

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    Hi everybody,

    I had this issue in Tiger and now with Leopard (10.5.2) on my Macbook as well. I'm Using the latest Parallels build 5584. This problem is quite well explained in this earlier thread.

    Simply put, when I Cmd+H Parallels doesn't Hide. And also when I go to Finder and do Opt+Cmd+H, all apps get hidden except for Parallels and Finder, whereas Parallels should get hidden as well.

    Any one else facing this?

    Arif
     
  2. Hugh Watkins

    Hugh Watkins Forum Maven

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    no I just put the mouse
    bottom left corner to hide all
    and Parallels disappears as it should

    But checking if I use the finder menu
    Hide Others
    Paralleles remains
    10.4.11 OS

    Hugh W
     
  3. mavakil

    mavakil Member

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    Hi Hughes,

    That's an interesting work around. How do you specifically do that? (ie. put the mouse in the bottom left hand corner to Hide all). Is it via the expose feature to activate Screen Corners and then you choose to Show Desktop? Or is there a better way?

    Arif
     
  4. Hugh Watkins

    Hugh Watkins Forum Maven

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    from a private reply:-

    please reply to the board
    private discussions are a waste of time and the groups intelligence and knowledge is far greater then mine

    If you are a newbie on the mac (even if a graduate with deep knowledge of unix) you need to learn how to use the GUI fully

    go into system preferences
    dashboard and exposé
    and set it up how you like it

    activate screen corners

    the present generation of Macs have two advantages over windows

    Unix based not NT based

    and a GUI with a higher degree of automation
    Window nealy caught up with Win2000 but Mac still leads GUI world

    10.5 is getting good reports too

    try and got to some seminars run by Adobe or Nikon for example and see how top professional mac users work in finder too


    see the various news:comp.sys.mac.* groups on usenet for moire OS helkp

    I hung in ther efor six months when i returend to the mac OS after 5 years away
    there was much to relearn and new to discover

    but the keyboard shortcuts are standardised for almost all programs

    regards

    Hugh W
     

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