All posts by Andrew Golokha

How to Access Your VM Files Without Starting Parallels Desktop

Guest blog by Manoj Raghu, Parallels Support Team “Hold on, John,”—Or How to Save Time While Accessing Your Virtual Machine Files without Starting Parallels Desktop Let’s picture a situation when you are on a call with a client and need to send that file right away, but then you realize you saved it in your […]

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4 Quick Ways to Access the Windows Start Menu in Coherence Mode

Guest blog by Sylvester Sebastian Nino, Parallels Support Team Most of the people who use Parallels Desktop enjoy seamless access to Mac and Windows programs and files. The best way to blend the two OSes even more is by using the Coherence view mode to run your Windows virtual machine. One of my coworkers has […]

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How to Resize Your Parallels Desktop Virtual Machine

Guest blog by Paul Christopher Nathaniel, Parallels Support Team Living in today’s world of “Big Data,” the size of the files we create, share, and store doesn’t matter so much anymore. Do you remember those times when we had to shrink the size of pictures just to save some hard disk space? These days, most PCs […]

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How to Install Windows 10 in Parallels Desktop 11

Guest blog by Manoj Kumar Suresh, Parallels Support Team Windows 10 is here! It’s officially been released and it’s already much better than Windows 8, period. (Right?!)  Even better, Windows 10 is a free upgrade for most Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 users, so it’s not surprising that many Windows users are upgrading—including users on […]

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Snapshots vs. Rollback Mode in Parallels Desktop

Guest blog by Dishant Tripathi, Parallels Support Team If you didn’t know already, Parallels runs 24/7 customer support globally. We talk to our customers via phone, chat, emails and our social media channels, all day, every day. On one of these days, after a night shift answering customer questions, I scored a successful power nap […]

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How to Transfer an Existing Virtual Machine to Your New Mac

Guest blog by Manoj Raghu, Parallels Support Team We’ve all been there. (Or we all hope we’ll be there!) You just opened a shiny new Mac with pristine Mac OS X and blank settings. Yes, Apple has its own migration assistant, but according to my experience, many customers prefer to start fresh. Wait—does that mean […]

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How to Start Boot Camp Without Restarting Your Mac with Parallels Desktop 11

Guest blog by Dhruba Jyoti Das, Parallels Support Team One of my co-workers has previously written about the general procedure on how to set up a Windows virtual machine in Parallels Desktop based on your Boot Camp partition. But time flies fast, and Microsoft came up with Windows 10—not to mention, we recently released Parallels […]

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How to Sync Photos Between Android and Mac with Parallels Access

By Paul Christopher Nathaniel, Parallels Support Team As much as we like our iPads, we realize that many people who own Macs may also opt for an Android or Windows tablet instead. For iPhone, iPad, and iPod, you can sync/transfer photos to your computer using iTunes. But that same process is a little different for Android—let’s […]

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Everything You Need to Know About Network Modes in Parallels Desktop

Guest blog by RamaKrishna Sarma Chavali, Parallels Support Team How does your virtual machine connect to the Internet in Parallels Desktop? This is a question I hear pretty often from users, so let me shed some light on this. Parallels Desktop has three different networking modes to “talk to the world”. These are Bridged, Shared and Host-Only. […]

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How to Configure the Best Display Settings for Parallels Desktop on a Retina Mac

Guest blog by Dishant Tripathi, Parallels Support Team In this post, I’ll guide you through configuring the ideal settings needed for you to enjoy the best display experience with Parallels Desktop running on your Mac. First, and most important, the default settings should be just fine. But in certain cases…well, you know how mysterious things […]

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