I seem to be unable to restore minimized windows when running Windows Server 2008 x64 SP2 as a guest in Parallels Build 7.0.15050 for some applications. While yesterday I could swear nothing would restore, today I have only been able to replicate the behavior with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (IE and a command window work just fine). All window behavior is just fine in windowed and full-screen mode so it is only in Coherence. I tried turning Crystal off to no effect. The host and guest have both been restarted and the guest tools have been removed and re-installed. I work in a strongly hybridized environment so not using Coherence would be a real inconvenience for me. I am trying to switch from the buggy VMWare Fusion and this is the last issue standing in my way. If anybody has any advice it would be much appreciated.
Can you please describe what exactly happens when you are trying to restore windows? Are they not responding? Do they disappear or blink?
After I minimize a window in coherence it disappears. As I would expect when I click the parallels icon for the running application in the dock it re-appears. Only sometimes (usually consistently with a particular application) it does not. The menu bar will flash briefly to that of the program I clicked (say Visual Studio 2008) then switch back to the last application which had focus. Clicking again results in the same behavior. Using Command+Tab to switch to the application results in the same behavior. After multiple reboots I have found the behavior to be inconsistent. Currently all my applications are behaving just fine. Sometimes none of them will restore. Sometimes it is only Visual Studio which will not. There is obviously a variable here I am not seeing so if you have any ideas as to what I should check please let me know.
I suggest you to contact technical support team - go to www.parallels.com/support/ and submit support request. Please try to push your request to the second line engineers straight away - this case need to be investigated by out Product Maintenance team
There are no missing options and minimizing windows works just fine. It is the restoring of a minimized window which is behaving erratically.
I am still seeing this issue. Have you found a solution? The only thing that I have seen work so far is to switch out of coherence mode and back. But, the next time an app is minimized the same behavior will return.
