Friday, October 16, 2009

Delete-key in Parallels Desktop

OK – this might well be one of the shortest thing I’ve written but it’s sooo annoying.

If you want to do DELETE (hitting the Delete-key) in the Windows OS running in Parallels, go [fn]-[<-] (function and backspace) on your Mac Keyboard.

Ahhh – so nice to get that out of my system.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks, essential fact!!!

Marcus said...

I know!

That's my favorite trick in Parallels Desktop right now. If something doesn't work as normal in Windows - press [FN] and try again.

Apparently the [FN]-key and backspace produces a [DELETE] even in Mac

Fredrik said...

Otherwise you can just use the right arrow key and then backspace ;-)
Of course that's not effective if you plan on deleting lots of characters, but then using the mouse to mark and then hitting backspace would be much faster anyway.

Anonymous said...

thank you thank you thank you - saved me a heap of frustration, cheers

Anonymous said...

finally, i can delete again. thanks!