parallels build 5160




What's New in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac (Build 5160)
• Coherence 3.0
• Each Windows application window opens as a separate Mac window
• Correct Z-order support for all windows
• Expose support
• Mac-style drop shadow support (foreground window has deeper shadow)
• Transparent windows support
• Minimize windows to Mac Dock support
• Coherence performance improvement
• Bringing Windows notifications to front
• Silent boot in Coherence mode when clicking on virtual machine
alias
• Virtualization Engine
• General virtual machine performance optimization
• Significant CPU usage improvement
• Memory management improvement: support for more than 4GB of RAM for
multiple virtual machines
• Maximum memory size available for a virtual machine increased from
1.5GB to 2GB
• Shared User Profile - Use your Mac Desktop and Documents/Pictures/
Music folders as Desktop and My Documents/My Pictures/My Music in
Windows
NOTE: Parallels Desktop doesn’t automatically synchronize your Windows
profile folders to Mac folders when you enable Shared Profile. You can
access your Windows desktop at “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
\Desktop\” or “C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Desktop\”. To
access other Windows profile folders, go to “C:\Documents and Settings
\<User Name>\<User Name>’s Documents\”.
• Map Shared Folders to Windows drives letters - Automatically map
and access your Shared Folders using Windows drive letters
• Multi-user support - Share your virtual machines with other Mac OS
X users
• Recycle Bin integration - Ability to drag and drop files from
Windows to Mac OS X trash bin
• Empty Windows Recycle Bin - Empty Windows recylcle bin directly
from the Application menu
• Show Windows Desktop - Show Windows desktop in Coherence mode
directly from the Application menu
• Configurable Sound - Allows you to use headset within virtual
machine with highest sound quality
• Change Sound Device on the fly - Change input and output sound
devices connected to virtual machine on the fly via menu or status bar
icon
• Boot Camp compatible key mapping - Boot Camp key combinations
substitute specific Windows keys like Insert, Print Screen and so on
• Virtual keyboard – send key combinations to virtual machine in one
click
• Keyboard passthrough support when assistive devices are on -
Keyboard passthrough mode when assistive devices support is enabled in
Universal Access preferences
• Apple iPhone support - synchronize contacts, scheduler, mail and
media between your Windows virtual machine and your iPhone
• Parallels Transporter - Migrate your Linux PC to a Parallels
virtual machine
• Parallels Mounter - Double-click Parallels virtual disks and mount
them to Mac Desktop to access Windows files and folders using Finder
(even if the virtual machine is not running)
• Parallels Explorer
• Suspended virtual machines support
• Improved drag-and-drop, copying/deleting operations
• Parallels Image Tool - Manages properties of your virtual disk
image
• Changes your virtual disk format and properties

Desktop 3.0 for Mac (Build 5160)
• Primary OS support
• Latest Leopard versions may become unusable after installing
Parallels Desktop - fixed
• Uninstaller doesn't work on Leopard 9a499 and 9a500n - fixed
• Stability and resources usage
• Overall CPU and memory resources usage - optimized
• Kernel Panics on Mac Mini when VT-x is disabled - fixed
• Some fatal errors during virtual machine startup - fixed
• Fatal error during browsing some websites - fixed
• Windows 98 high CPU usage - fixed
• HDD file corruption after changing the format of the virtual hard
disk - fixed
• Choppy sound in Windows Media Player 11 in Vista – fixed
• Running 3D applications may freeze iMac with ATI Radeon 2600
graphic card - fixed
• Coherence
• "Show/Hide Windows Taskbar" option - improved
• Transparent windows display incorrectly - fixed
• Issues during windows moving - fixed
• Windows moving speed - improved
• Parallels Tools
• Large screen resolutions support - added
• Parallels Tools Center CPU usage - optimized
• Parallels Tools Center crashes caused by some applications - fixed
• Mouse scrolling problem in Adobe Acrobat 8 - fixed
• Parallels Tools Center in Windows 95 can't be started due to a
missing symbol - fixed
• SmartSelect and Shared Applications
• In rare cases Parallels Desktop crashes on Parallels Tools updating
if "Share Mac Applications to Windows" option enabled - fixed
• Incorrect Shared Web Applications state after build upgrade - fixed
• Can't edit SmartSelect options for paused virtual machine - fixed
• Disks and folders sharing
• Shared folders may become unavailable after resume - fixed
• Video and 3D
• Several segmentation faults during playing games - fixed
• Crashes of some applications caused by DirectX drivers - fixed
• Parallels Desktop window resizing issues - fixed
• DirectX and OpenGL performance - improved
• Force Suspend for OpenGL – added (you can suspend virtual machine
with running OpenGL applications)
• Parallels Explorer&Mounter
• Mounter as a default application for browsing HDD files
• Drag-and-drop issues due to some Unicode problems - fixed
• Extentional searching procedure for Columns and Tree views - added
• Command+Up и Command+Down support - added
• Columns view: listing the same column items using the keyboard
shortcuts - added
• Sorting - improved
• Parallels Image Tool
• Increasing capacity of expanding and plain(!) virtual disks - added
• Converting virtual disks from expanding to plain and vice versa -
added
• Converting HDD file format from 2.5 version to 3.0 and vice versa -
added

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