Hello, whenever I have the Coherence Service and the Tools service running in Windows 7 (plain Parallels VM, no BootCamp, adjust Mac resolution to that of the VM = on) I have issues when a game is re-setting the monitor resolution and I then quite the game at some point. The monitor resolution won't switch back. Example: I'm running my VM in full screen (1280x800), open a game that runs in, say, 800x600, I play it for a while, then quit it, and then the resolution stays at 800x600 and doesn't go back to 1280x800. When I prevent those 2 services from loading, this doesn't happen and the resolution switches back very nicely. Feels like a bug to me. For me this doesn't matter all that much as I never use Coherence and thus don't need the service, but I need to open msconfig and turn off those services (and reboot) every time I do a fresh install of the Parallels Tools (ie with every Parallels update). Maybe you could have a look. Also, Stardock is installed every time with the Tools. Now I understand the reason (MacLook) but along with others I'd like to suggest you make this an optional install. I don't use MacLook, I don't think it's very aesthetic (it only approximates the Mac look-and-feel), and I need to uninstall Stardock (and manually delete the program folder) every time I install the Tools. Third, it would be great if you could change the way the mouse driver is working so that Windows' animated mouse icons (e.g. rotating ring) animate smoothly. At the moment, with mouse integration on, the animations are quite choppy. (The mouse moves fine but the cursor animations look as if a few frames were missing.) I really like Parallels; keep up the good work!
An update to the "animated mouse icons" (or cursors) item mentioned in my post above: http://pretentiousname.com/win7_fixed_aero_busy/index.html describe in a bit more detail how Windows 7's animated mouse cursors work. Maybe you could have a look for a future PD release...? :-D
