Windows Apps not showing in "Open With" menus on OS X

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by PaulKorm, Nov 7, 2013.

  1. PaulKorm

    PaulKorm Member

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    I'm using OS X 10.9, Parallels 9.0.23140, and a Windows 8.1 VM. All three of these were upgrades from the prior levels, just around the same time -- so there's been a lot of change.

    Formerly, with Parallels 8 and Windows 8, relevant Windows apps appeared in "Open With" menus, depending on the file type. Now, in OS X "Open With" menus I'm only seeing Mac apps and no Windows apps. (The Windows VM is open and I'm logged into Windows.) I can browse to the ~/Applications (Parallels)/Windows 8 Applications Folder, though I would like to get back to the former state when "Open With" menus always showed the relevant Windows app for that file type.

    I changed no configuration options for either the VM or Parallels itself -- just upgraded Parallels from 8 to 9 and Windows from 8 to 8.1 -- with each upgrade event, Parallels tools reinstalled itself.

    Looking for suggestions to troubleshoot or fix this.
     

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