Windows Start Menu on High sierra / Parallels 13 / Windows 10

[Alfena@Parallels]

Hello @FrancescoC1 ,
Please refer http://kb.parallels.com/111603 to get the latest build of Parallels Desktop and glad to know your issue is resolved.
Thanks

 

[KayRJay]

I've got (low) Sierra, 10.12.6, and Parallels 13 (13.1.1, 43120). Running in Coherence mode. Can't get Start menu to appear from Mac menu bar icon. Used to be able to have Windows task bar appear when hovering at the left side of the screen. All of a sudden not. Would love a fix!

 

[KayRJay]

After rebooting Windows, it works.

 

[PaulChristopher@Parallels]

After rebooting Windows, it works.

Hi @KayRJay,
Glad to know it works. We are always here to help

 

[JasonS9]

My personal Mac (High Sierra / Parallels 13 / Windows 10) updated and the start menu is working again ... however on my work Mac (High Sierra / Parallels 11 / Win 7) still has the issue of no start menu when clicking on the icon. Any change older versions of Parallels will get an update?

Thanks

 

[Meenakshi@Parallels]

I was able to manually download the new release: the start menu issue was fixed also for me.

Glad to know that you were able to sort out the issue. Please get back to us for any further queries. Thanks!

 

[DalvanC]

My Version 13.2.0 (43213) still does not display the start menu in Coherence mode. Any news?

 

[Oraculum]

in my case menu open but not work

see attachment

I have a version 13.2 and my VM migrate to version 12

 

[Meenakshi@Parallels]

Hello Oraculum, kindly be informed that this is a known issue with Windows 10 and happens on real Windows PC's as well. As a workaround (results not guaranteed), navigate to C:\Windows\System32 and locate the application 'ctfmon'. Next, press CMD+R in Windows to launch the Run window, type 'shell:startup' (without the quotes) in the text field, hit 'Enter' (which opens a new window), drag and drop the 'ctfmon' application from the other window into the new window, launch it (no application window will open and nothing will seem to happen because, after being launched, the application will simply run hidden in the background) and restart Windows.Thanks!

 

[Meenakshi@Parallels]

Hello DalvanC, to open Windows start menu in Coherence mode please follow as suggested in this article and see if this works. Thanks!

 

[AlonP]

Hello, I have the same issue with Parallels 12.2.1 and Windows 7 - Windows Start menu would not appear when clicking on the Windows 7 Start icon in Coherence mode. It would appear in non-coherence mode or if I select View Windows Start Menu in coherence mode. I tried different suggested solutions such as reinstalling Parallel tools, making sure "prl_cc" has admin permissions, the "ctfmon" solution, but nothing helped.
I see that that there is a solution for Parallels 13.
When are you going to release a a solution for Ver 12?

 

[Bloomk]

I have this issue on 13.2.0..

 

[JoshK4]

This still happens for me on 13.3. The ctfmon.exe workaround doesn't work, and neither does the Automatically hide and show the Dock setting. This is extremely annoying.