Uninstalling Stardock apps from Windows 7 VM

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jkwuc89

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One of the new Parallels 5 features is MacLook which makes the Windows apps look like OS X apps. After some digging into my Windows 7 VM, I discovered that a suite of Stardock apps is used to accomplish this. The side effect of this is that two Stardock apps run automatically inside my VM. I do not use MacLook so I fired up Control Panel to uninstall the Stardock apps. The uninstall did nothing, leaving behind all of the files and leaving behind the two Stardock processes.

To work around this, I killed the two Stardock processes via Task Manager and then, I removed the two Stardock folders under c:\Program Files. So far, I have seen no adverse side effects inside my VM when I did this.

I suspect that installing Parallels Tools results in the Stardock apps being installed. Going forward, can we make installing the Stardock apps optional inside a VM?
 
I posted re this the other day at http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=95526&highlight=stardock.

My issue was that "the Windows Action Center now reports that I need to "Address a problem with WindowBlinds".

It would be good to get a reply from Parallels re this as the v 5 upgrade installed additional software which results in, albeit a minor, error condition. I've experienced no ill effect from this s/w being installed, but I would have preferred to have known that third party s/w was being installed with this upgrade.
 
Thanks for the information.

Any advice on the error message I already reported re this? Attached is a screen shot from the Windows Action Center. Going to the Stardock site provide no actionable information.
 

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