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johnbro23

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Apr 12, 2004
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Pittsburgh, PA
When I boot my computer (either restarting or just booting from being off) it always starts up in Windows, unless I hold down the option key and choose Mac. I only go into Windows once in a while, and would like to just press the power button to get into Mac OSX. Now, I have to press the power button, hold the option button for 5 seconds then choose Mac.

Any ideas?
 
I went into Mac System Prefs, even though I thought I'd been there before, but I just clicked on "Mac OSX" and tested it out and it worked. Both with a restart and shut down. I'm feelin pretty dumb haha.
 
Yeah, I believe Bootcamp changes the default boot partition for the windows install to work. Though I wished the Driver CD would change it back.
 
7on said:
Yeah, I believe Bootcamp changes the default boot partition for the windows install to work. Though I wished the Driver CD would change it back.

I'm surprised Apple has allowed this. Not the best way to get those 'new because-of-boot-camp switchers' used to using OS X. But then again, we are running windows on a mac. :p
 
thewhitehart said:
I'm surprised Apple has allowed this. Not the best way to get those 'new because-of-boot-camp switchers' used to using OS X. But then again, we are running windows on a mac. :p

I'm sure it will be fixed. It totally doesn't make sense to have winBlows be the default OS. :mad: :rolleyes:
 
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