User`s guide

Integrating Mac OS X and Your Virtual Machine 162
Using SmartSelect
SmartSelect allows you to open files of particular types, stored in Mac OS X, in Windows guest
OS applications. Moreover, you can also open files of particular types, stored in Windows guest
OSs, in Mac OS X applications.
Note: To use SmartSelect, you should install Parallels Tools (p. 97) in the virtual machine and
disable the Isolate Mac from Windows option in the Security pane (p. 179) of the virtual machine
configuration.
SmartSelect is available for the following guest OSs:
 Windows 2000
 Windows Server 2003
 Windows XP
 Windows Vista
 Windows Server 2008
 Windows 7
To enable SmartSelect, you need to configure the Shared Applications (p. 184) settings in
Virtual Machine Configuration.
Opening Files in Mac OS X With Windows Applications
To make the description of opening files in Mac OS X with Windows applications more vivid,
let us assume that you have the doc.txt file stored in Mac OS X and you want to open it with
Notepad.
 If you want to open the doc.txt file with Notepad only once, right-click this file, choose
Open With from the shortcut menu, and select Notepad. If there is no Notepad in the context
menu, click Other, and select Windows Applications for Windows > Notepad in Finder.
 If you want to open all .txt files stored in Mac OS X with Notepad from now on:
1. Right-click the doc.txt file, choose Open With from the shortcut menu, and select
Notepad.
2. Right-click the Notepad icon in the Dock, and choose SmartSelect from the shortcut
menu.