Fixing Parallels Desktop Start menu and Spotlight Clash
December 13th, 2009
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Parallels Desktop crystal mode is awesome. When combined with the “Mac look” option, you don’t even know you’re in Windows…
The only issue I ran into is that when you hit CMD+Space for Spotlight, the Windows Start menu pops up and makes Spotlight disappear. The fix was easy enough:
- Exit crystal mode
- Go to Parallels Preferences menu
- Under the Keyboard & Mouse tab, create two shortcuts
- Change the Cmd -> Win shortcut to whatever you want to open the Windows Start menu (you can see I set it to Ctrl+Space above, in the spirit of Spotlight)
- Create a dummy Cmd shortcut to Ctrl (basically to have it od nothing in Windows). This will just have Parallels forward the Cmd to the Mac side and open Spotlight.
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