If you want to start up using the default operating system now, click Restart. How can you set OSX to boot by default? Select the startup disk with the default operating system you want to use.

However, I want that OSX boots by default and Windows 7 only as I press ALT and then select it. Windows 7 starts now by default in the normal boot.

Without further ado, here’s how to set up Boot Camp and install Windows.

Boot Camp is also better at running Windows software than virtual machines like Parallels or, which are programs that simultaneously run Windows inside Mac’s operating system. For instance, PC MMOs such as Star Trek Online, Tera, and Star Wars: The Old Republic only run on Windows. Probably the most common reason Mac owners use Boot Camp is to play Windows-only games. With the press of a button, you can switch between Mac and Windows every time your computer turns on. So you have a Mac but also want to run Windows? You’re in luck: shortly after the first Intel-based Macs arrived on the market in 2009, Apple released a tool called Boot Camp, which lets Mac owners install and start their machines natively in Microsoft Windows.

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