Shared Applications Settings

In the Shared Applications pane of Virtual Machine Configuration, you can specify one or more applications that will be shared between Mac OS X and your Windows guest OS.

Note: The options available in the Shared Applications pane are relevant only to Windows virtual machines with Parallels Tools installed.

Shared Applications

The Shared Applications functionality is not available if you have the High security level. Enabling this functionality, automatically sets Elevated security level.

Windows applications

In this section, you can configure the following applications-related parameters:

Select Share Windows applications with Mac OS X to allow using Windows applications for opening the files in Mac OS X. Before using a Windows application in Mac OS X for the first time, you should open it once in the virtual machine guest OS. If you want to switch off the Share Windows application with Mac OS X option, clear this option in the Shared Applications pane of Virtual Machine Configuration, submit the changes, and delete the Windows Applications folder from the virtual machine bundle.
Select Enable SmartSelect to enable the SmartSelect functionality allowing you to associate certain files with certain applications, irrespective of whether these are Mac or Windows files, or Mac or Windows applications. For detailed information on the SmartSelect functionality, refer to Using SmartSelect.
The Show in Dock option allows you to configure the appearance of your Windows application icons in the Dock of Mac OS X.

For more information on working with shared applications, refer to the Using Shared Applications section.

Mac OS X applications

In this section, you can allow to open Windows files with Mac OS X applications. to do this, enable the Share Mac OS X applications with Windows option.

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