Windows in a Window

Windows in a Window The problem with Boot Camp is that every time you switch to or from Windows, you have to close down everything you were working on and restart the computer
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Windows in a Window 8.2. Windows in a WindowThe problem with Boot Camp is that every time you switch to or from Windows, youhave to close down everything you were working on and restart the computer—andreverse the process when youre done. You lose two or three minutes each way. And youcant copy and paste between Mac and Windows programs.There is another way: an $80 utility called Parallels Workstation for Mac OS X(www.parallels.com), and its rival, VMWare Fusion (www.vmware.com). Theseprograms let you run Windows and Mac OS Xsimultaneously; Windows hangs out in awindow of its own, while the Mac is running Mac OS X (Figure 8-4). Its something likethe old, dog-slow emulation software known as Microsoft VirtualPC, with one keydifference:speed. Youre getting about 90 percent of Boot Camps Windows speed—notfast enough for 3-D games, but plenty fast for just about everything else. UP TO SPEED Removing Windows Maybe youre a switcher who held onto Windows because you were worried that youd need it. Maybe youre finished with the project, the job, or the phase of life that required you to use Windows on your Mac. But one way or another, there may come a time when you want to get rid of your Windows installation and reclaim all the hard drive space it was using. Not only can you do that, but the process wont touch anything thats already on the Mac side. You wont have to erase your entire hard drive or anything— Leopard simply erases whats on the Windows partition of your hard drive, and then adds that disk space back to your main,Mac partition. To do this, start by making sure youve rescued anything worth saving from the Windows side of your computer—its about to be erased. Start up in Mac OS X, quit all open programs, and make sure nobodys logged in but you. Now open up the Boot Camp Assistant program in your Applications Utilities folder. On the welcome screen, click Restore the startup disk to a single volume, and then click Continue. Thats all there is to it. Special notes for special setups: If you installed Windows on a separate hard drive, rather than a partition of yourmain hard drive, dont bother with all this. Just erase the Windows hard drive using Disk Utility, as described in Chapter 10, and format it as a Mac drive. On the other hand, if your Mac has more than one internal hard drive, and you created a Windows partition on one of them (rather than taking it over completely), open Boot Camp Assistant as described above. This time, though, click Create or remove a Windows partition, click Continue, click the Windows disk, and then click Restore to a single Mac OS partition.Once again, you have to supply your own copy of Windows for the installation process.This time, though, it doesnt have to be Windows XP or Vista. It can be any version ofWindows, all the way back to Windows 3.1—or even Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS/2, orMS-DOS.Having virtualization software on your Intel Mac is a beautiful thing. You can beworking on a design in iWork, duck into a Microsoft Access database (Windows only),look up an address, copy it, and paste it back into the Mac program.And what if you cant decide whether to use Boot Camp (fast and feature-complete, butrequires restarting) or Parallels/Fusion(fast and nore starting, but no3-D games)? Noproblem—install both. They coexist beautifully on a single Mac, and can even use thesame copy of Windows.Together, they turn the Intel-based Macintosh into the Uni-Computer: the single machinethat can run nearly 100 percent of the worlds software catalog.8.2.1. Virtualization Tip-O-RamaMastering Parallels, Fusion, or VirtualBox means mastering Windows, of course, but italso means mastering these tips: Figure 8-4. The strangest sight you ever did see: Mac OS X and Windows XP. On the same screen. At the same time. Courtesy of VMWare Fusion. Parallels is very similar.• You donthave to run Windows in a window. With one keystroke, you can make your Windows simulator cover the entire screen. Youre still actually running two operating systems at once, but the whole Mac world is hidden for the moment so you can exploit your full screen. Just choose View Full Screen. Tip: Or use the keystroke Alt-Enter (Parallels) or Ctrl- -Return (Fusion) to enter and exit Full Screen mode.• Conversely, both Parallels and Fusion offer something called Coherence or Unity mode, in which theres no trace of the Windows desktop. Instead, each Windows program floats in its own disembodied window, just like a Mac program; the Mac OS X desktop lies reassuringly in the background. Tip: In Fusions Unity mode, you can access your Computer, Doc ...