Not receiving Mac popups overtop of windows

Discussion in 'General Questions' started by FrancesT, Jun 1, 2012.

  1. FrancesT

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    Ever since I upgraded to Parallel's Desktop 7 for Mac, I have been having problems with the top Apple menu popping overtop of windows. Specifically closing maximized windows programs and inadvertently clicking minimize Parallels Desktop.

    Steps to reproduce:

    Open Parallels Desktop 7 and open Windows 7.

    Open any PC allocation and maximize it making it full screen. I am using Microsoft Word for PC, but it could be Photoshop, Maya or any non Mac problem.

    Now place the mouse curser overtop of the close window on the top right corner. Move it upward to the top right. Apple's menu pops overtop of this and what happens often is you inadvertently click a blue icon with arrows instead of what you wanted to click, the red close window on the PC side.

    Can Parallels please fix it so that if you place your mouse on the top of windows anywhere on the screen NO Apple window pops overtop? This goes for the top menu bar as well as the Apple Doc on the very bottom. Maybe to do this, you can "command + click" that area and you will then get this menu.

    I simply want it so that when you are in windows, NO Apple window pops overtop to distract or click on by accident. Parallels Desktop 6 did not have the blue full screen/minimize window on the top right, but an animated flap on the top left which was MUCH easier to use. I would like it to be easy to switch between windows and Mac, but when you are on the PC side, your workflow is not disrupted at all by the mac side. There should be a setting inside Parallels which asks you if you want to turn off these Apple popup like features or leave them turned on. I'd like to run the PC side just like a real PC. The closest I have gotten to this is clicking F6 to switch to PC or Mac. When I do this, it works exactly as I want it, but I still have the menu popup problem on the PC side. Please make a setting to disable these popups over the PC side.

    Thank you!!
     

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