everything was going fine!!!

i installed parallels ... bought and installed Windows 7 ... everything was working properly with the side-by-side deal ... parallels was in my menu bar ... i even installed a program in windows and everything was still working fine ... THEN all of a sudden ... Windows now comes up in a COMPLETELY new screen!!! ... and there is NO ICON OR ANYTHING to get back to MY IMAC !!! ... why did i lose my sid-by-side??? ... and i cannot find the PREFERENCES in parallels to correct this ... DID I MISS A STEP in the installation process??? ... do i have to do the VIRTUAL MACHINE process??? ... i really don't want this to be a nightmare!!! ... PLEASE HELP!!! ... i need to have both MAC and Windows working, but i am really a MAC person!!! ... and don't want Windows to take over my computer!!! ... HELP!

 

Hi.
Seems you have a problem with view modes.
You can find descriptions of different modes that can be used in Parallels desktop here:
http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v7/update2/docs/en/Parallels Desktop User's Guide/
In the menu on the left navigate to 'Use Windows on Your Mac'->'Set How Windows Works with Mac OS X'.
There on pages 'Merge Windows and Mac OS X', 'Set Windows to Appear in a Single Window', 'Set Windows to Take Up the Whole screen' you can find descriptions of different view modes and instruction on how to use them.

 

command+ctrl+f (full screen toggle).

 

still need help!!!

thank you for your replies ... the problem still is that i CANNOT get access to the parallels program ... no menu bar shows up ... there is nothing i can get into to CHANGE anything!!! ... and when i am in windows 7 there is still NOTHING to click or access to get to back to my MAC ... i have to click on the real player app to get back to MAC ... i am sure that i have done something wrong ... should i uninstall and re-install????? ... don't want to screw anything up !... this is turning out to be a nightmare ...

 

ok ... i found the "view" when i right click on the dock icon

and i saw that there were a couple of choices ... what is "MACLOOK?" ... started to download and then stopped ... now i don't have VIEW available to me ... so frustrating ...

 

Please read the User Guide instead of following a trial and error approach.

 

Thank you!

i finally read thru the guide and got myself into coherence mode ...!