Parallels: opening a windows program in the mac dock?!

[yOyOYoo]

If I have parallels installed on my iMac with windows XP, is there a way that I can have a windows XP program icon in my dock, and then click on that icon and have it boot up windows xp and open a particular program??

I believe it is possible I just can't figure out how to do it. Any help would be awesome. Thanks!

 

[yOyOYoo]

can no one help me??

 

[yOyOYoo]

last hope...

 

[Dr.Gargoyle]

I don't think you can do that. I have been thinking about it myself.

 

[Pixellated]

No, it's impossible.

 

[swiftaw]

No, it's impossible.

Of course it's possible.

In Parallels:
Go to Edit->Virtual Machine (VM will have to be shutdown first)

Go to General->Shared Applications
Enable "Share Windows applications to Mac"
Enable "SmartSelect"
Change Show in Dock to Always

Now, launch your Virtual Machine

Open up apps you want to keep in the dock, they should now appear in the dock.

Right click on them, and select "Keep in Dock"

They will now stay in the dock even when Parallels isn't running. If you click on them, Parallels will launch and then the app within Parallels will launch.

 

[Neil321]

swiftaw are you aware if this works in Fusion or something similar??

 

[swiftaw]

swiftaw are you aware if this works in Fusion or something similar??

Unfortunately I have never used Fusion, so I don't know if you can do it.

 

[Neil321]

Unfortunately I have never used Fusion, so I don't know if you can do it.

Are Ok,I'm at work now so will try it out when i get home tonight, I'm pretty sure it should work as the settings are pretty much the sameness