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    Parallels: How to prevent OSX opening Parallels/Windows to access programs?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by marcosdjcm, Oct 13, 2009.

  1. marcosdjcm

    marcosdjcm Notebook Guru

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    I just double-clicked a .xls document on MacOSX and despite having iWork installed it resirted to opening up Microsoft Excel in Parallels. Annoying!

    Now i know i can go and change what application opens up .xls docs permanently, but there must be a way to disable and completely prevent this action happening with any document on OSX.

    Basically, i never ever want OSX to even consider opening Parallels to open a document. Does anyone know where that setting could be?
     
    marcosdjcm, Oct 13, 2009
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  2. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    right click an .xls file (any) and go to get info. you can also press apple key + i.

    find Open with, change it to iWorks or whatever you want to open it with and then click Change all.
     
    wave, Oct 13, 2009
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    marcosdjcm Notebook Guru

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    Thanks but i'd like to disable any and all programs from opening through parallels. Like i said i could do it with each file format individually but thats laborious.

    So if anyone knows of a way to tell Parallels to only open when i specifically click on it that would be great :confused:
     
    marcosdjcm, Oct 13, 2009
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    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    I havent used parallels in awhile, but there was some option in there to enable or disable allowing this exact thing...
     
    doh123, Oct 14, 2009
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