Newsgroup: it.comp.macintosh
Titolo: 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

 What's New in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac (Build 5160)
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