[X4U] Parallels 3.0 hijacked application defaults

[Judi Sohn]

As much as I love Parallels, their tech support hasn't been quite up
to snuff. Let's hope it has improved in the last few months. Anyway, I
had a similar issue and I fixed it by right/control click on the file
and change the "Open with" to the correct application, then click the
button to "Change All." You only have to do that once for each type of
file that got messed up.

I'm a little annoyed that if you use the preference to set web
defaults, it automatically assumes Safari/Mail! I use
Firefox/Thunderbird and it's a pain to have Safari launch from a click
on the Windows side instead of my OS X default. Makes no sense.

On 6/8/07, Randy B. Singer <randy at macattorney.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 8, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Robert A. Virzi wrote:
>
> > Generally, I love Parallels, and version 3.0 has some very nice
> > features that let me run the occasional windows programs I need on
> > my mac.  So I am generally a happy customer.
> >
> > However, I just installed 3.0, and ran in coherence mode.  Now on
> > the Mac OS side, all the default applications have been switched to
> > Windows apps.  So if I click on an excel file, Windows Excel seems
> > to be the default.  How do I go back to making the Mac apps be the
> > defaults for opening the files associated with them?
>
> Thank goodness I haven't had this problem with Parallels!
>
> Parallels comes with unlimited free tech support via e-mail, so I
> suggest that you contact them with this question:
>
> http://www.parallels.com/support/request/
>
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