Hello everyone, I'm very happy with my Parallels Desktop 4.0, and the Windows 7 Professional installation went very smoothly. There's just one small thing that doesn't seem to work, whatever I try: the Windows Taskbar always reverts back to its initial state (loses all pinned applications, goes to the bottom of the screen instead of left, does not auto-hide anymore) whenever I restart the virtual machine. I tried to check and uncheck the "Automatically relocate Windows taskbar" under the Coherence panel in the Virtual Machine Configure. I tried to right-click on the taskbar itself, uncheck "Lock the taskbar", apply the changes I want (position and auto-hide), and then lock it again. Whatever I do, the pesky taskbar forgets everything as soon as I restart the virtual machine. I actually don't know if it's a Parallels Desktop problem, or maybe a Windows 7 issue. Anybody got an idea? Thanks a lot in advance!
Need to shut down Windows first I asked Parallels this question and here's their response. The solution worked for me! Windows is also an Operating System like Mac so whenever you want to close Parallels Desktop you have to shut down Windows first. When Windows shuts down normally it saves all the settings. To shut down Windows click on Start Menu > Turn off Computer/Shut down. So the next time when you restart Windows it will show the same settings. Or it has to recover and reset the settings.
