New To Parallels and need some help

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William_Pronovost

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Hi. I have Mac 10.10 (Yosemite) and I am running Parallels 10 with a Windows 7 Pro install.
I don't know how to ask what I want to ask, so I am going to try my best to be clear. Don't jump on me. I am looking for help and if you can't provide it, no problem. I don't need you to respond just to respond.

Now...
1. I like having a separate window for my Windows.
2. I am not sure what Coherence is, but I think it relates to my #1 and I am not using it.
3. I want to be able to drag and drop, copy and paste between OS's.
4. I want to be able to use the download folder and my documents folder as one and not manage 2 different ones.
5. (IMPORTANT) I don't want my desktop being shared. If I have things on my Windows desktop, I want to only see them there. If I have something on my Mac desktop, I only want to see them there. (Well not exactly. If I have something on my Mac desktop, I don't mind if it is visible in the windows environment, but I don't want Windows programs and links showing up on my Mac desktop).

This is strange because not every shortcut from Windows is appearing on my Mac. But some are and when I delete them from the Mac desktop, they disappear on the Windows desktop too. Then I go and create a new shortcut, and its back on my Mac. I guess I want Windows programs to only be visible in Windows, but I don't want to install/buy Office (for example) for windows when I have it on my Mac. So if I click on a DOC then I want it to open in my Mac.

Again, I am really just trying to keep my desktop clean. I think everything else is fine.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
 
I have been using my iMac and MacBook Pro to perform Development work. I have my VM's set up to use Coherance. Using this mode I get windows apps in their own windows and Mac mac apps as you would expect. This mode seems to me to be the most transparent. I have SQL Server Management windows open on multiple monitors, Visual Studio open on another window, a Apple Remote Desktop connection to my employers server which has a "shared" folder exposing a specific folder on my Mac. I copy files between my VM to this location which then makes it available to to my employer's side via my RDP connection. The reverse is also true.

While cut n paste works between environments flawlessly I find copying large files (I commonly do 80 GB copies) work better if they copy from a shared network drive rather than a cut and paste operation. I have the windows session have a mapped drive to a Mac known folder. (Similar to that of the RDP setup). This has proven to be a very simple yet powerful solution. Again you can copy files between mac and windows via drag and drop however performance seems to suffer on extremely large items. A network copy via a shared maped drive has seemed to be quicker.

As to your last item. I too do not like the default settings of paralles. There exist various esoteric click boxes in the configuration settiings of VMs'. After unchecking several (and lots of trial and error), I can now install an app within windows and the resulting desktop icons DO NOT copy to my mac. Every "upgrade" in my Parallels seems to ignore this customizations and I find myself having to resist them an uncheck these items. A pain that that I live with which is not unbearable. The most annoying thing I have not found a solution for yet is I now have a folder showing up on my mac which provides me "mapped folders" to my windows folders. I also keep getting icons in my dashboard when I specifically tell it not to do that. (They can be removed)
 
Configure the VM, on the "options" tab, the sharing settings are
  • unchecked shared cloud features
  • unchecked smart mount
  • all "share windows" features are unchecked
On the "Options/Applications" settings:
  • Share Windows application on Mac checked,
  • Show Dock Icons in Coherance Only checked
  • Share Mac applications with WIndows
  • All other item unchecked.
On the "Options/Coherance" settings:
  • Show Windows notification area in menu bar checked
  • Allow apps to auto-swithch to full screen unchecked
On the "Options/Full Screen", "Options/Modality" settings - No changes
On the "Options Advanced", all items checked.
On the Security tab, all items unchecked.

I am running a windows 8.1 environment with a "software development" base settings.
 
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