Parallels settings not taking

Mavericks on Mac Desktop, Parallels 9/9.024229, Windows 7.

Installed parallels with no problem and selected coherency mode. Had trouble installing Win7 from dvd, so I transferred from old PC via external drive. Not ideal, but it seemed to work. Parallels tools also installed.

Problems: Windows is very slow to boot; Win applications do not launch; According to the manual, applications should appear in Mac find and Doc - they do not. I can only launch windows from the Mac Launchpad via parallels; coherency is greyed out both in the top right corner of windows, and View from Parallels task bar menu (means it's active?).

My Parallels settings are:
Sharing - Home folder only; share mac user folders with windows; access windows folders from mac; mount virtual disk to mac desktop; user define mac folder is documents
Security: Integration - Isolate Mac from Windows is NOT CHECKED.
Configure Dialog Mac folders mapped to windows: Desktop, music, documents, movies, pictures, downloads ALL CHECKED.

What am I missing/doing wrong/ or not doing?

Thanks

 

Hello BGleason,

This might happen if Parallels Tools are not installed properly.

Please try to (re)install Parallels Tools as suggested at : http://kb.parallels.com/4841 and then check how it goes !!!

 

Thanks, but discovered it was a faulty Windows install. Deleted windows and re-installed and all is working now.

Thanks again.

 

Hello BGleason,

We are glad to hear that your Windows is working fine.

Feel free to reach us if you have any further questions.