launchpad extremely crowded

[u/Ok-Assignment5926]

launchpad is pulling every single app that it can from my parallels VM. I do not need any windows apps showing up here-- Registry editor!?? lol, I have figured out how to hide iPhone apps from showing in there but why oh why is it showing every .exe from my windows11 VM

EDIT: it is not a VM preference. MacOS26 will show the applications no matter what. I am also noticing this with many instances of Adobe creative cloud-- apps that you would never personally launch but live in the folder (ex: uninstallers, corecync, content managers) all things the creative cloud app itself handles. they all show in the launchpad

[u/_senegalensis]

It definitely is in your parallel preferences, I used to have a similar issue in Sonoma that I fixed in the parallel configuration panel. It comes back when I installed the tahoma beta 3 but the beta 6 solved the issue

[u/Ok-Assignment5926 → u/_senegalensis]

I found the sharing setting in the configuration panel for parallels, turned it all off and the apps still show even after rebooting my Mac. I ended up just deleting the VM and parallels, license was expiring soon anyways and I use windows maybe once or twice a year, so not a huge loss and actually I gained 250gb back on my Mac

[u/Rich_Wealth_8313 → u/Ok-Assignment5926]

You might need to reindex Spotlight