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- February 14th, 2009, 07:12 PM #1
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Parallels causing a lot of trouble I have Windows XP installed on Parallels and it tries to open every single file. .doc or .wmv, etc are opened with my virtual machine; even non-Windows files are opened like this! This is very annoying as my whole virtual machine turns on if I want to watch a video or something and that takes a lot of CPU speed and turning Parallels off takes a good 2 minutes. How can I let my Mac and my Mac only open the files which it is totally capable of opening? Answers would be much appreciated.
- February 15th, 2009, 04:49 AM #2
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My current machine is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 24" and a MacBook Pro 13" with MacOS X 10.6. My oldest Apple was born in 1977.
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- February 15th, 2009, 08:45 AM #3
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You need to associate your files with their MacOS X applications.
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- February 15th, 2009, 05:48 PM #4
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I do, I go into "Get Info" and then set it to always open with the specific application. The file I changed works but other files with same ending have the same problem still
- February 15th, 2009, 11:00 PM #5
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Coolio,
Try this:
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=20154
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- February 16th, 2009, 03:22 PM #6
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Hey ex2bot, I went to the page you listed but the instructions there are unclear t me. Can you summarize basically what they're saying please?
- February 16th, 2009, 06:02 PM #7
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The last post in that thread seems to sum it up very well.
What about that post is unclear to you?Serendipity is a lucky guess !
- February 16th, 2009, 09:36 PM #8
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I just don't know where the "Windows Application Folder" is on the mac part of comp.
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