Renamed icon on the desktop, now icon won't work

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PerryK1

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I renamed the icon on my Desktop, and now The Icon won't work anymore.
Telling me that it cannot find .......
So I trashed it.
Is there a way to create a new icon on my desktop for my Windows bootup ?
and if not, what is the original name for the icon? I tried "Parallels" "PARALLELS" but none of them work.
All I did was Rename..
 
Hi,
Parallels Desktop creates just a virtual machine symbolic link on the Desktop. You can create it yourself:
1. Open Terminal from Finder > Applications > Utilities
2. In Terminal type "cd ~/Desktop" (without quotes) and hit Enter to change working directory to Desktop
3. In Terminal type "ln -s " (without quotes, note the space after "s")
4. Open Finder and locate VM .pvm bundle (default location is ~/Documents/Parallels) > drag and drop .pvm bundle from Finder window into Terminal window. The command in Terminal now will look like:
ln -s /Users/<username>/Documents/Parallels/Windows\ 7.pvm
5. In Terminal hit space and enter desired name of the link (icon) in the quotes, e.g. "Windows 7". Finally command will look like
ln -s /Users/<username>/Documents/Parallels/Windows\ 7.pvm "Windows 7"
6. Hit Enter. That's it
 
Oh, that way it creates the icon back? never knew that.... Guess happens if your new to Mac and this program :)
 
Hi Perry,
Parallels Desktop will not create icon back automatically, this is done once during VM installation) but you can do it manually following steps above =)
BTW, you can also create just an alias:
- Open Finder and locate VM .pvm bundle (default location is ~/Documents/Parallels) > right-click it > Make Alias.
- Now move alias on the Desktop and rename it
 
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