Complex Startup of Windows App

I'm using Parallels in conjunction with Windows XP. I bought this bundle so as to be able to use a Windows-only website builder (Xara Web Designer MX Premium). But, I believe there's some sort of snafu within Parallels that complicates the Xara startup.

Here's how I go about trying to open Xara. I start at Applications (Parallels) --> Windows XP --> Xara.app. When I click the Xara icon, a progress bar saying, "Starting Windows XP" opens. After it's finished, two windows open simultaneously, one layered over the other.

The window labeled Welcome To Windows is unproblematical. It says to open the Windows Start menu where there's (another) Xara icon, which, when clicked, opens the program.

However, a second window, Xara Web Designer MX Premium Setup also opens showing two buttons, "Repair" and "Remove". (I've only experimented with "Repair".) Clicking "Repair" take you down several more circuitous steps before landing on the Xara app to open the program.

I don't understand what function is served by that second window and how to keep it from automatically appearing. I'll appreciate your help.


Dave

 

You can manually start Windows first and start application from Start menu. Or try to recreate Windows applications folder in Mac. Open Configuration window for the virtual machine --> Options --> Applications disable sharing of Windows apps and enable back after a while.

 

Yana Yana,

I'll try the approaches you mention. I guess they're just some other ways of getting to Xara and starting it going. Am I correct?

But, you haven't answered my question in my first posting. If you don't know the answer I'd appreciate it if you just came out and said it.

Dave

 

The reason it appears is the broken link to Windows application on the Mac side. It points to the Virtual Machine correctly and starts it up, but fails to actually start the application itself - so it shows you the error message. this is why i suggested to recreate all links to Windows Applications in Mac (Application folder itself for Parallels) so that you can fix this broken link issue