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- February 2nd, 2007, 05:03 PM #1
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Running windows
A family member of mine went into an apple store and saw someone push two buttons on the keyboard of their macbook pro and it automatically switched to windows. Does anyone know how to do that
P.S. it impressed him so much that he's been successfully converted!Caleb
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- February 2nd, 2007, 05:23 PM #2
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- February 2nd, 2007, 05:39 PM #3
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So in other words, you can't run windows like bootcamp does in the background at the same time as running mac osx?
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- February 2nd, 2007, 06:19 PM #4
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They were probably running Windows on Parallels, which is a software package that acts as a virtual machine. If you're using Boot Camp, you have to reboot the Mac in order to access the Windows installation.
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- February 2nd, 2007, 08:39 PM #5
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nixgeek is right. I run WinXP (and Ubuntu Linux) simultaneously in separate Parallels windows on my MacBook Pro. I run each of those windows in full screen mode on separate desktops provided by VirtueDesktops. The end result is that I can change the desktop with a quick touch of 3 hotkeys (ctrl+cmd+left). Since each VM runs in full screen mode, it looks like I'm flipping between fully operational OS X, Windows and Linux environments.
The cool thing is...I am. :-)
Hope this helps.
- February 4th, 2007, 12:47 PM #6
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Ya, I think that they were using parallel also. It works great! thanks guys!
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- February 4th, 2007, 01:06 PM #7
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another way of doing it is setting up a new user account, and switching Fast User Switching on. then, logging into the new user, use parallels to run windows full screen.
use Fast User Switching to effectively 'Fast OS Switch', with the full cube animation. this may have further benefits in that Parallels may use less resources if it's running in the background of an inactive user... dunno, would like to see numbers on that.Dual 1.8GHz G5 2GB, 1TB, Radeon 9600XT 128MB, 10.5
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- February 4th, 2007, 01:16 PM #8
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Thats an awesome idea! How do you setup fast user switching?
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