(Archived) Something weird but good is happening Windows/Parallels/Mac

[datawiz 0]

I have a Mac and run Windows 7 through Parallels so that I can run Quicken for Windows. When I create a report in Quicken and print it as a PDF file, the icon now has a nice green elephant on it. And if I double-click on the file it switches to Evernote for Mac and puts the PDF in Evernote as a clipping. I am loving this and find it useful but why is it happening?

[JMichaelTX 4,118]

I have no idea why your Windows PDF is associated with Evernote, but, if you don't mind, I'd like to ask a few questions about Parallels.

1. How to you like Parallels? 
2. What ver are you running?
3. Any issues?
4. Is Quicken working OK?

Thanks.

[GrumpyMonkey 4,320]

I'll answer one question! I was running the latest version of Parallels, and liked using Evernote with it, but it was a little quirky with anything else (especially the Windows desktop). Maybe it was Windows 8. I don't know, but screen artifacts would sometimes hang around, and I had some trouble getting Windows program icons out of the dock. As long as I stuck to Evernote, it was fine. My copy of W8 expired, and I decided to uninstall it for now. I'll get around to reinstalling Parallels and XP someday, unless we get a list view on Mac before then

[datawiz 0]

I have no idea why your Windows PDF is associated with Evernote, but, if you don't mind, I'd like to ask a few questions about Parallels.

1. How to you like Parallels? 
2. What ver are you running?
3. Any issues?
4. Is Quicken working OK?

Thanks.

 

Short answer is: fine, but not loving it. It takes a huge hit on the RAM so I had to bump my computer up from 4 gb to 8 gb. Even with that on my MacBook Pro with 2.66 Ghz Intel Core i7 processor, it takes 1 minute 40 seconds to launch Quicken. I've got version 7.0 of Parallels. Quicken for Windows works fine and in some ways is better than Quicken for Mac was, and in other ways is worse. The only thing I use Parallels for is Quicken.

[pgdahl 133]

Unlike OS X, Windows does not come with a built in .pdf-reader, but apparently it is able to determine that Evernote reads .pdf-files and apparently sets it as default reader automatically when no other options present themselves. The same thing happens on my setup here where I have no .pdf-readers installed.

 

A quick word on Parallels from me too: I run version 7 on Mountain Lion (I believe version 8 has been out for a while now) and I run Windows 7 Home Premium. It's only to do some testing of websites in IE. (And to see what's up with Evernote for Windows every so often.) on a 201113" entry level MacBook Pro. It runs rather smoothly (I do keep it entirely self contained, though. No Coherence or Modality.

 

Also: A weird, but not so good thing, I have experienced with Evernote Windows in my setup is that it doesn't sync my joined notebooks.