Disable Parallels Desktop .lnk Pop-Up Dialog

How to disable the annoying Parallels Desktop com.parallels.SharedAppLink.Agent dialog

Previously, I wrote about how to disable Parallels Desktop update pop-up window. It works perfectly fine, but there is another annoying pop-up window that keeps showing up when I’m using Parallels Desktop.

This pop-up window dialog asked me to use com.parallels.SharedAppLink.Agent to open Windows’ .lnk files.

Do you want all documents with the extension “.lnk” to open with “com.parallels.SharedAppLink.Agent”?

[Use “com.parallels.SharedAppLink.Agent”]

[Don’t Change]

Parallels Desktop .lnk dialog
Parallels Desktop .lnk dialog

It is annoying and keeps showing up. Luckily, it’s very easy to fix.

To fix it, open Parallels Desktop’s preferences window by clicking Parallels Desktop > Preferences ... from the left-top menu bar. You can also press the ⌘ Command + , keyboard shortcut.

Go to the Advanced tab and click the Reset Warnings button next to the Reset all dialog warnings label.

Parallels Desktop Reset Warnings
Parallels Desktop Reset Warnings

Quit the Parallels Desktop app and re-open it. That’s it! Now that pop-up window is gone for real.

Final Thoughts

That’s it, thanks for reading my short blog post. I hope it can solve your problem.

As usual, if you have any questions or a better method, leave a comment below. Thanks for reading, and see you next time!

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