Parallels interrupts my work without warning to update

[winSharp93]

Hi,

today I've had a very unfortunate experience with Parallels while working in Windows under OSX Mavericks:

I was typing some text while a dialog popped up. However, at the same moment I tried to create a linebreak (hitting ENTER). This caused the dialog to be dismissed successfully (I didn't have the chance to read it) and before I could actually realize what was happening, my VM was suspended and Parallels updated. After the update completed a couple of minutes later, the guest needed a restart because the Parallels tools were updated automatically, too.

Because of this, I lost about 10 minutes and the thought I was currently working on.

This is definitely not how I expect automatic-updates to work: Hitting the enter key on a keyboard is not that uncommon. As I experienced, it actually can happen that the key-press happens at the same time the update dialog opens.

As a solution, I would suggest implementing one of the following solutions:

1. Use a OSX notification for the update dialog.
2. Require a minimum delay (maybe 2 seconds) before the dialog can be accepted
3. Don't accept keyboard input on the dialog (however, an unfortunate mouse click might still trigger an unwanted update)

Regards,
winSharp93

 

[kat]

To change the automatic updates under Parallels Desktop>Preferences>General>change Check for Updates to Never and uncheck automatic.