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DESCRIPTION
QuickBoot is a small application to make it quick & easy to temporarily boot another drive/partition like a Windows drive and have the system boot back to your default system after.
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REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.


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Developer:Buttered Cat Software
Downloads:2,892
  - Version d/l:140
Utilities:System
License:Free
Date:23 Jun 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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Jun 24 2009

NAOH  By the way, I love the title of the company.  
(Version 1.0.3b3)

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Oct 31 2008

MATTHEWMILLER12345  Leopard Support?  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Mar 28 2008

APPLEHC  Cyberatomic, think twice: I got FileVault and quite a lot of times it will take a couple of minutes to re-boot, since FileVault will compact the Sparse Image at logoff. So I sometimes wait 5 minutes pressing the alt key just to get the boot menu. Quite annoying...  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Jul 19 2007

CYBERATOMIC  What makes this worth while when you can just hold down the option key at boot and select the drive you want - then reboot from windows, and the mac defaults to booting back to the mac partition without having to do anything else?

I don't get it, is this for people who are keyboard challenged or something?  
(Version 1.0)

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Jul 19 2007

NAOH  I can think of a few situations where this may be useful.

One of which is where a machine is being accessed remotely.

Or if it is running headless.

I've also found using the alt key to be tricky, if the keyboard is a Windows style keyboard.

This utility might not have a wide audience, but it can be a time saver.  
(Version 1.0)

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Jul 19 2007

JEROME  The point is just to make it dead simple and not have to worry about holding down a key, which you can sometimes miss. If you have no problems holding down option then no reason to use this, just a simple alternative really.  
(Version 1.0)

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May 31 2009

GAZMAN  You're complaining about a free application that makes it easier to do something?

I used it this morning to boot up my TechToolPro DVD that I bought through the MacUpdate Promo. Worked a treat.  
(Version 1.0.3b2)

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