Simple tip for Bootcamp users

Does your Boot Camp program often disappear from the tray icon area in Windows 7?

Short of identifying the underlying issue, a simple workaround I have found is to pin the Boot Camp executable to the taskbar (should be in C:\Program Files\Boot Camp\Bootcamp.exe).

Then you can use the Windows 7 shortcuts: Win + number, on the Apple keyboard Cmd + number to, to reload it quickly, and then follow up immeditately with the volume controls or whatnot.

In games you may have to alt tab, or click outside the window, OR press the Win (Cmd) key once so that it activates the menu to get the focus, then press Cmd + number to reactivate Bootcamp quickly.

Any other tips welcome

 

What do you mean?

I'm on Snow Leopard and I have to hold down the Alt key explicitly or use something in OS X to restart in Windows. IF I reboot either from OS X or Bootcamp, or cold boot, it always loads OS X.

ps: If you right click the Boot Camp tray icon it has an option "Restart in Mac OS X".

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If you are willing to "suffer" Windows .. RainMeter is very nice:

http://rainmeter.net/cms/

I installed just the default, it gives you these on the desktop:
- IP address
- CPU, RAM usage
- Recycle bin usage + shortcut
- Clock
- Network usage
- Disks usage

And if you click the "System" box title it opens the Task Manager without switching the whole screen to black and then the menu thing that you get with Ctrl Alt Del.

 

Just curious, how do you end up with OS X not being the startup disk? WOuld Occamsrazr have changed it previously?