I use parallels on MacOS to play windows games and it works very well, but every time I'm finished playing it's a bit frustrating to have to: 1. find and select Actions->Suspend menu item. 2. Wait for suspend to complete (can take a while) 3) find and select Windows 11->Quit Windows 11 It would be much appreciated if you could make this a single step that avoids the wait by adding a "Suspend and Quit" menu. This would suspend, wait for suspend to complete, then quit the app. Thanks for listening, Steve
Are you trying to quit Windows and Parallels completely or just quit Windows and leave Parallels running? If you're planning on taking a break from using Windows for a while, you can just click on the Windows icon in the task bar, click on the "power" icon, select Sleep and wait 10 seconds or so for Windows to go into sleep mode. If you want to just quit Windows, same actions but choose Shutdown and, Windows goes away. Can you give more details as to what it is you're trying to do. Is it to shut down Windows and Parallels completely, shut down Windows but leave Parallels running, put Windows into Sleep (Suspend) mode and quit Windows? I just shut down Windows (Windows icon, select Shutdown, Windows closes and goes away) and I'm back in MacOS.
Thanks for your reply. I'd like a menu item that suspended the windows instance, and once the suspend was complete, quit the *Parallels Windows 11 App* (this does not mean quitting the running copy of MS Windows itself - that is just being suspended). I'd also like the Parallels app to also quit such that no processes/cpu/ram or being used by parallels or windows. Ideally, when I restart the app (if it was last shut down this way), I'd like it to open parallels, windows 11 app, and resume the instance of windows without me having to actively wait for the app to open and then hitting the resume button. It would be helpful if there was a chime/sound that played once the app was up and windows was unsuspended, so I didn't have to keep an eye on it. Does that make sense?
I'm not sure that when you shut down Parallels it preserves the last state MS Windows was in. Give me an hour or so to load a "normal" version (not Windows Insider version) and I'll try putting it to sleep and quitting Parallels and then restart and see if it wil resume (even though I'm not sure what you save if you just shut down Windows and then quit Parallels). Is it that you want to return to some suspended game or program that you were running where you left off? Do you load Control Center? If Control Center is loaded, it will switch to the installed Windows instance when it's activated but not (as far as I can tell) to an already loaded program.
Okay, I just loaded the standard Win 11 Pro, selected Sleep, then quit Parallels. Waited a few minutes, restarted Parallels and it restarted where it left off. Second time,selected Sleep, then quit Parallels directly from the icon. Restarted Parallels and .resumes where I left off but does NOT restart Solitaire where I left it. If you want to resume where you were in a game, that doesn't seem to work but you can save a bunch of steps by simply selecting Sleep in Windows and then quitting Parallels.
It seems to work for me with World of Warships, though it looses the game (as expected) looses the connection to the server and (annoyingly) requires you to click the "CONNECT" button instead of automatically attempting to reconnect.
