I had heard that there were a sequence of steps to be done at the log in 
screen, at least just before the Mac side of things booted up. I just was not 
certain what the order was. I know if this is done at the log-in screen, you 
will not have any speech. I am assuming there will be some speech if I used the 
steps Phil initially described, i.e. using system preferences to get back and 
forth?

> On Dec 26, 2014, at 8:04 PM, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> as long as you know the boot order you can use a scheme like that to 
> determine the boot OS. Problem is, yours is not a typical boot order, usually 
> its Mac OS, then Recovery, then bootcamp. But it could be any order depending 
> on various factors. Usually Mac OS X comes up when booting a mac. 
> 
> One way to do things is to try various arrow keystrokes at the boot screen 
> and see where you wind up, then write down the results. A little 
> experimentation I suppose will give you your Mac’s boot order and then you 
> can use the method described below..
> 
> Of course, all this is rendered moot by VMWare Fusion which lets you command 
> tab back and forth between OS X and windows with no rebooting. 
> I like fusion for the ability to cut and paste data between OS’s and such 
> things as that.
> I can have Safari and internet explorer open at the same time and use them 
> interchangeably etc, can’t do these sorts of things with a bootcamp 
> installation, but each to their own.
> 
> 
>> On Dec 26, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Rob <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> Logging into windows just to turn around and log in to the mac and vice 
>> versa is too much.
>> here is a quicker way.
>> Here is the steps I used.
>> when I start the mac normally, windows would start.
>> Here is how to choose the drive you want.
>> Start your Mac, at the sound press and hold the option key about 10 seconds.
>> For me, windows was listed first of the three drives.
>> 
>> 1 windows
>> 2 recovery
>> 3 Mac.
>> to select the Mac drive, I would press left arrow then enter,
>> or
>> press right arrow once for recovery and right arrow again for Mac.
>> the reason for this is windows is the first choice and is selected. pressing 
>> left arrow will wrap around to choice 3 which is the Mac.
>> 
>> I hope this helps.
>> and if your drives are listed differently. you will have to experiment a 
>> little.
>> Thanks,
>> Rob
>> 
>> On 12/26/2014 5:36 AM, denise avant wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>> Now that I have bootcamp up and running on my mac, I am looking for 
>>> instructions on how to reliably switch back and forth from the mac side to 
>>> the windows side on my macbook air. I have yosemite and windows 7 installed 
>>> using bootcamp on a macbook air  2013. Any guides or podcast links would be 
>>> greatly appreciated.
>>> 
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