About Parallels Tools

Parallels Tools is a set of useful utilities that increase the level of integration between Windows and Chrome OS. By default, Parallels Tools are installed in Windows by your system administrator. It is not recommended that you uninstall Parallels Tools from Windows.

Parallels Tools enable the following features:

• Copying and pasting objects: when Parallels Tools are installed, you can copy and paste text, formatted text, pictures and files from Chrome OS to Windows and vice versa.
• Dragging and dropping files: you can drag and drop files from Chrome OS to Windows and vice versa.
• Dragging and dropping text: you can drag and drop text between Chrome OS and Windows apps. However, please note that not all applications support this feature.
• Opening Microsoft Office files in desktop apps: if you have Microsoft Office installed in Windows, you can open Office files from web in the desktop applications. For example, sign in to your Microsoft Office account in the Chrome OS web browser, right-click some Microsoft Office file (say, .docx) and choose Open in Desktop App. This file will open in the desktop version of Microsoft Word.
• Dynamic resolution: when you resize the virtual machine window, Windows screen resolution adjusts automatically.
• Shared folders: you can share Chrome OS folders with Windows and Windows folders with Chrome OS. This allows you to save Chrome OS files to Windows and Windows files to Chrome OS folders. By default, the Chrome OS folders shared with Windows are available on the Windows desktop in the Parallels Shared Folders folder. And Windows folders shared with Chrome OS are available in the Files app > My files > Windows files.
• Shared apps: due to this functionality, you can open Chrome OS files with Windows apps (right-click a Chrome OS file, navigate to Open with and select a Windows application to open this file).

  You can also set to always open URLs from Windows in the Chrome OS web browser. To do this, you need to change the default browser in Windows. Click the Start button > Settings > Default apps and choose your Chrome OS browser as the default one.

Note: When you start Windows after Parallels Desktop update, Parallels Tools update automatically.