My desktop is not my desktop?

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by dcortesi, Dec 19, 2016.

  1. dcortesi

    dcortesi Junior Member

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    I'm sure this is a user error but it is baffling me. Running Windows 7, not in Coherence. I just want it to behave like an isolated windows system. However, if I use Windows Explorer to open C:\Users\myname\Desktop I do NOT see the files that are visible on the displayed Windows desktop.

    I can right-click on the Explorer window of C:\Users\myname\Desktop and create a new folder 'barfoo' and it does not appear on the displayed desktop. On the visible Windows desktop I create a folder 'hellofromwindows' and go to the Mac OS Finder and search, and yes, the Finder says this file exists on Macintosh HD:Users:myname:desktop -- but it is NOT VISIBLE on the Mac desktop. (If it had been I'd have been spared some puzzlement...)

    Bottom line, how do I make Windows treat its own C:\Users\myname\Desktop as its desktop and not get in any way mixed up with the host desktop?
     

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