Windows as default boot system

[kirschgarten]

Is it possible to change the default boot system from OS X to Windows? I'm mainly using Windows and it is kind of annoying that I always have to "force" the computer to start in Windows instead of OS X.

[Synaesthesia]

Yes, make Windows partition active and use the Chain0 method, or use Acronis Boot Loader.

[kirschgarten]

Thanks. I managed to make the Windows partition active with the Windows utility "diskpart". That means, however, that the computer starts without choice into Windows - and that's also not what I want. I changed it therefore back to "normal" and also changed the bootloader waiting time (before it boots automatically into OS X) to 60 seconds.

 

The Chain0 method I do not really understand (and I also found many postings in various forums that it does not work) and the Acronis Boot Loader I would have to buy.

 

So I guess I have to live with it as it is - much better now with the 60 second delay.

 

My dream is that one day someone provides us with a driver for the stock WLAN card. Or I find many reports of people who switched the card and are happy with it under Windows and OS X. The missing WLAN is the main (if not only) reason that I went back to Windows on the 1000HE. And I have to say that the stock WLAN card is simply terrific with Windows! With my old Windows notebook I had exactly one network to use - my own. Now I have five or six and used already three of them successfully. For OS X I bought a USB WLAN adapter from Trendnet but unfortunately it does not work very well (and looks ugly on such a beautiful computer).