For work purposes, I installed XP with fusion as a parallell. Everything is working fine expect windows now appears as the default operating system at startup. How do I make mac as the start up operating system?
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Just installed XP and is now the startup up OS :(
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macrem
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If you're in Windows, right click the Boot Camp Control Panel and select 'Restart in Mac OS X'.
If you're in Leopard, go to system preferences, Startup Disk, and select Mac OS X as your startup disk.
If you're in Leopard, go to system preferences, Startup Disk, and select Mac OS X as your startup disk.
If you want an easy way to select between windows and OS X without the "option key" nonsense try Refit. Their web page is here http://refit.sourceforge.net/
sickmacdoc
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As Cave Man said above, just go into your System Preferences and click the "Startup Disk" pane- then select your OSX disk to make it the default startup to solve that.
sickmacdoc
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Yes that is true- but the reason I installed and then pulled it right back off is that I boot to OSX 95% of the time and did not want to make a OSX/Windows choice at every startup as ReFit does it. 🙁 Much easier to just boot to OSX by default, and hit Option the few times I want to startup in Windows IMO.