Oh, yeah, that’s what Mac calls shortcuts. I right clicked again, then this time noticed the Make Alias option.
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I dimly remember now this not being an issue with Macs. Windows people know that you never move apps. And when I moved the app, it MOVED the app, not created a shortcut. Then I wanted to make a shortcut to it, but right clicking seemed to be useless for anything. Where the hell was VMware?Įventually, I clicked on the hard drive icon on the desktop, saw the applications folder and found it there. I kept looking for something that corresponds to the Start menu on the Mac but had no luck. (Personally, I also have a folder called “Programs” on my desktop where I drag icons for programs I use, to avoid the mess the Start menu can become). With Windows, any program gets installed in your Start menu. I just went with the defaults.Īfter installing it, confused Windows user took over. Install was pretty straight-forward though involved a lot of windows and options that I didn’t know the right answer to. I finally got it out.īefore I removed it, I did the install, of course. Eventually using the Finder window, it clicked that the VMware listing was the name of the disc (on the PC, I’d be looking for a drive name plus maybe the name of the disc).
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But nice - it’s a pain having the disc carriers slide out. But I wondered if it was working since the disc didn’t get “grabbed” until it was almost entirely in. The guy at the Apple store told me that VMware was recommended by most people for running Windows on the Mac rather than Parallels.
#VMWARE WINDOWS ON MAC MAC OS#
I have both a super pretty laptop now and a fast one running all my regular apps without me having to deal with the Mac OS much or until I want to.
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But someone told me that the Mac is one of the best ways to run Windows XP, and they were totally correct. OK, there are a lot of things I really dislike (no task bar, stupid keyboard shortcuts).