Windows 8 Start Menu & Desktop Mode

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ChrisW7

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Ok, so the features of Parallels 9 says that it offers a full Windows 8 start menu and the ability to boot directly into desktop mode, but I can't seem to figure out where to set these up, anyone have any instructions?
 
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How do you do this?

whitewater said:
apparently you can have paralells install stardock that allows this. Under the following menu.

Parallels menu > View > Use Windows 7 look
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How do you do this? I don't seem to have any view menu options to tell Parallels to install something called StarDock or to tell it to display Windows 7 in Windows 8.

If you could provide a link or give me the steps, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
JimD,
 
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Should be the View option on the Parallel status bar on the top of the screen. If you don't see it there maybe a bug, or maybe the OS VM needs to be set to be recognized as windows 8.
 
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The only options in that menu are:

Enter Coherence
Enter Full Screen
Enter Modality

Use All Displays in Full Screen

Make Screen Shot
Show Resource Usage
Hide Status Bar
 
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I've created a problem report, 30559653.

I really appreciate everyone's help. I'd like to move on to win8, if possible, but this panel they've created for their phones and tablets is worse than useless on a desktop or laptop computer. Secondly, removed any type of useful menuing (start menu), makes using the computer more trouble than its worth.

So, when I read that Parallels 9 would fix these foundational problems, I jumped at it.
Thanks,
JimD,
 
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