As a old timer in the computer world I hate having to build a new container for every app I want to use. Coming from a world were every megabyte counted its seems an intolerable wast of space. I don't know if any one has used this idea before but I found a useful solution is to install a shell gui for Windows called blackbox which was originally created for Linux. The product is called bblean which can be found here http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/
This program runs as a desktop gui and it does a good job in finding other installed Windows programs and adding it to its menu
The menu can be found by using a right click of the mouse where a whole list of options including other installed Windows programs can be found. Click on the Windows program you want to run and it will appear inside the blackbox window.
There's a blackbox configuration program called bbStyleMaker that allows you configure every spect of the gui that's extremely powerful
I have bblean running at max resolution in the background so my apple menu bar appears in the front. It's so well intergrated it's hard to tell is not the Mac gui I can launch any Windows program or Mac program at the same time and there windowing system looks almost identical so it's hard to tell which is which.
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