User`s guide

Use Windows on Your Mac

Note: If the Windows disk icon doesn't appear on the Mac OS X desktop, from the Finder choose

Finder > Preferences > General and make sure that Connected servers is selected.

To unmount Windows from the desktop:

1 Start Windows. (p. 41)

2 Option-click (Alt-click) the Parallels icon

in the menu bar and choose Configure. Then click

Options and select Sharing.

Note: If Windows is running in Window mode (p. 55), choose Configure from the Virtual Machine

menu.

3 Deselect Mount virtual disks to Mac desktop.

Note: The Windows disk disappears from the desktop and the Finder, but you can still access all of the

Windows files and folders via the Windows PVM file and Terminal (/Volumes). By default, the PVM file

is either in /Users/<Username>/Documents/Parallels/ or /Users/Shared. You can also find

the PVM file by right-clicking Windows in the Parallels Virtual Machines list and selecting Show in

Finder. To access Windows files and folders, right-click the PVM file, select Show Package Contents

from the context menu, and open the Windows Disks folder. To disable the ability to navigate to

Windows files and folders, deselect Access Windows folders from Mac in step 3 above.