I found not one, but two, folders full of Parallels 'apps,' things that I believe acted like shortcuts to Windows programs that would open the Windows program in the Parallels VM. I spent some time looking through my system internal storage (can't call these things hard drives anymore). With a normal Fusion install, shouldn't they all get associated with Fusion? I think I need to get rid of that somehow. Somehow, deep in my system, all these Windows apps and files are associated with Parallels.

When I click a mailto in an OS X browser window, I get 'Parallels Desktop was not found.' The Microsoft Outlook.app icon visible in the Default Applications dialog contains the tiny Parallels icon.

For example, I have VMware Fusion > Preferences > Default Applications > Open Mail (mailto) with: > Microsoft Outlook.app. I do see some other Windows apps (Paint and Photos) that are associated with Fusion, but these are apps I never used when I had Parallels installed. (I don't have any of this issue in Single Window or Full Screen modes there, Windows just works like Windows.) If I expand the Open With list I see no additional Windows Photo Viewer app that's associated with Fusion. Indeed, when I try to open the JPG, I get 'Parallels Desktop was not found.' The tiny Parallels icon is superimposed on most windows files and apps, which means I can't open any of them in Unity mode. But if I look closely at the Windows Photo Viewer app icon, it's got a tiny Parallels icon superimposed to show that it will open in Parallels. So, Get Info on a JPG file shows Windows Photo Viewer is listed as the default app already. But because I did that, JPG files are now associated, apparently, with the Windows Photo Viewer app in Parallels. This is what I easily (I don't remember how it was trivial) set up to happen in Parallels. I'd like all JPG files to open in Fusion in Windows with the Windows Photo Viewer app.

Completely remove parallels from mac