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    \\psf renamed to \\mac (shared folders)

    At some point over the last year (probably when I updated from Parallels 10 to Parallels 11 but I can't be sure) Windows 10 started seeing the mac shared folder at a location of \\mac\home\some_place rather than \\psf\home\some_place. Whilst it continues to work fine for most things, I have an...
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    Windows 10 network printers offline at random (partial solution)

    Thanks for the pointer to the update. I'll give it a go and report anything of interest
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    Windows 10 network printers offline at random (partial solution)

    Thanks for the suggestion, but that won't work for my needs for two reasons Reason A) It suggests setting networking as bridged, but I prefer to have the windows network set as shared (when travelling, I need Windows to use the VPN I have on my mac and not have to create and run a second VPN...
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    Windows 10 network printers offline at random (partial solution)

    Hi, For a while I've had an issue where our network printers report as offline in the Windows 10 guest, however they work fine all regular windows 10 users and work fine from my OS X host. Work around solution: Open "services.msc" from the Window 10 search bar Find 'Print spooler', restart the...
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    windows 8 vm becomes corrupted after reclaiming space

    I've just had the same happen on a windows 7 VM. I read another post suggestion the tips at: http://kb.parallels.com/en/9165 helped them. I started trying the 'split disk into 2gb' option to see if that would fix it but I didn't have time to wait so I restored a backup from a couple of days ago
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    Where's the Hash Key gone?

    I have my macbook pro keyboard and a Windows USB keyboard. The icon appears in the bottom right of the screen, just outside the system tray. It looks like a keyboard with a wire. I can't find anything that describes how to enable it, so I assume it appears automatically when more than one...
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    Where's the Hash Key gone?

    Thanks, I couldn't use it because Windows7 Keyboard was set to "United Kingdom (apple) - Parallels", changing to "United Kingdom" solved it
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