Cursor won't move between desktops

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turbomac

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On my MacBook Pro the cursor will move freely between my Windows and Mac desktops (in windowed mode). On my iMac I must press control/alt to release the cursor from the Windows desktop and I cannot seem to change that behavior. Does anyone know how to change this?
 
Yes. Plus a reinstall for good measure.
The virtual machine was imported from VPC using PD4 transporter. I had to manually install the network,sound & USB adapters as PD4 tools did not automatically install them during the upgrade process.
When I used transporter to import the machine I still had to wait a long time for PD4 to "upgrade" the machine after transporter had finished even though the transported file was a .pvm file in PD4 format. Is this normal? Should I try the whole thing again?
 
Tool problem with drag and drop

I have installed and reinstalled Tools. In Services, "Automatially capture and release the mouse pointer' is checked but grayed out. Enable "drag-and-drop" is checked. But I still see the Press ctrl+alt message in the lower left corner of my Windows VM. I can drag-and-drop FROM my Mac desktop TO the windows VM, but I cannot do the reverse - drag-and-drop FROM Windows VM TO my Mac desktop.

My Windows XP was included with VPC and was used on an older Mac. With my new Mac intel, I installed Paralles and Windows XP was recognized and captured. The data was migrated and everything is working fine (except for a hair-raising couple of days trying to get my printer to work). The only problem is that I cannot drag a file from the VM to the mac desktop. It is very important that I be able to. Can you please help?
 
Christine
You may have to uninstall VPC additions in order for your drag & drop functionality to work using Parallels. You can only uninstall the additions within Virtual PC following the directions in John's post above. You cannot remove the additions from a migrated system running in Parallels. Unfortunately this means that you will have to re-migrate & upgrade the VPC virtual machine again after you have removed the additions. Just boot into Windows using VPC and run Add/Remove Programs which is located in Windows control panels. You will have no problem seeing the additions & removing them. Then shut down Windows & use Parallels Transporter to migrate the VM. This solution appears to have worked for me.
 
Hi. I cannot go back to VPC and it won't run on my new intel Mac. I did what John suggested, but no go. I'm dead in the water.

Christine
 
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