I have a mac OS X (10.6.8) host running a windows XP guest OS, using Parallels Desktop 4.0.3846 It has been working fine, until I lost the ability today to copy paste clipboard text between guest and host. Following advice from this forum, I re-installed parallels tools. Now copy paste works, but I have to press ctrl-alt to get the mouse out of the VM. I tried both 'repair' and a complete uninstall and re-install of parallels tools (with all the requisite restarts in between). The installation seemed to complete ok - my shared folders work, etc - and there were no error messages. any ideas? Apart from upgrading that is.
Try to temporarily uninstall antivirus, disable firewall and reinstall parallels tools again as suggested here: http://kb.parallels.com/8969
Hi there, thanks for the suggestion. I tried switching off the firewall (no antivirus) and re-installing tools, but it had no effect. I'll try the more thorough cleanup as suggested in the article and report back.
