Characters entered on Mac are also written to Windows VM

Discussion in 'macOS Virtual Machine' started by jjmusi, Dec 15, 2012.

  1. jjmusi

    jjmusi Bit poster

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    Hi,

    I have Parallels Desktop 7 (Build 7.0.15106) with WinXP, running on Mountain Lion. Parallels Desktop is in full screen mode.

    When I am using some other mac application (e.g. skype), characters are sent to the app window AND to the active application on Parallels Desktop.

    It happens only sometimes. I can't tell what exact conditions make it happen.

    Thus I am forced to keep a blank Notepad window open in the foreground of the windows VM, so that any text copied erroneously to Windows ends up there. But even this sometimes doesn't stop Windows from opening up the Run dialog box, or windows help.

    Has anyone seen this problem? It's annoying and a little dangerous (when Windows does things it shouldn't).

    Thanks!
    Janusz
     

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