Setup: Parallels Desktop 27.1.0 (58756), macOS 27.2 on Apple silicon, Windows 11 on Arm (build 26300.9818) in Coherence mode. Windows applications are shared to the Mac and launched from the Dock.
What happens: since Parallels Desktop 27, launching a Windows application from its Dock icon first shows a small window. It holds the application's icon, its name, a progress bar and "Starting…". It closes about 0.35 seconds later, when the application appears. I never saw this window before Parallels Desktop 27.
What I found:
- The release notes for 27.0.1 (KB 131168) say: "Fixed: The "Starting…" window for a shared Windows application (e.g., Microsoft Excel) would remain on screen after the application had already launched in Coherence mode."
- In the thread "Excel "Starting..." window never closes" (370658), a user described it on 26 August as "this new pop-up window".
- I found no setting for it in Preferences, in the virtual machine's configuration, in Parallels' Mac preferences or in Parallels' registry keys in Windows.
- It is still there after updating to 27.1.0.
Questions:
1. Was this window introduced in version 27 and, if not, when was it introduced?
2. Is there a setting, visible or hidden, to turn it off?
What happens: since Parallels Desktop 27, launching a Windows application from its Dock icon first shows a small window. It holds the application's icon, its name, a progress bar and "Starting…". It closes about 0.35 seconds later, when the application appears. I never saw this window before Parallels Desktop 27.
What I found:
- The release notes for 27.0.1 (KB 131168) say: "Fixed: The "Starting…" window for a shared Windows application (e.g., Microsoft Excel) would remain on screen after the application had already launched in Coherence mode."
- In the thread "Excel "Starting..." window never closes" (370658), a user described it on 26 August as "this new pop-up window".
- I found no setting for it in Preferences, in the virtual machine's configuration, in Parallels' Mac preferences or in Parallels' registry keys in Windows.
- It is still there after updating to 27.1.0.
Questions:
1. Was this window introduced in version 27 and, if not, when was it introduced?
2. Is there a setting, visible or hidden, to turn it off?