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Switching with a keyboard command

You can set a keyboard command, or “hot key,” to switch between the Mac OS and the PC environment. To set the hot key, you must be in the Macintosh environment. (If you are in the PC environment, press x-Return.)

mTo choose a hot key, open the PC Setup control panel and press the Tab key to select the Hot Key text field; then press the keys you want to use.

The x key is automatically included in the hot key. You can use any other keys, including Option, Control, and Shift. However, x-Return always switches from the PC environment to the Mac OS, regardless of the other hot keys you set in the control panel.

Turning the PC environment on and off

You use the buttons near the bottom of the PC Setup control panel to switch environments, to restart the PC environment, or to shut the PC environment off.

mSwitch to PC immediately switches to the PC environment.

mStart/Restart PC starts the PC environment if it’s off, or restarts it if it’s running (but doesn’t actually switch to the PC environment).

mShut Down PC turns off the PC environment.

IMPORTANT If you click Off at the top of the PC Setup control panel, you won’t be able to switch to the PC environment. When you restart the computer, the PC environment is turned off and any RAM you requested for it is available to the Mac OS. (For more information on requesting RAM for the PC environment, see “Setting Shared Memory” in Chapter 6.)

Starting the PC environment automatically

To have the PC environment start automatically when you turn on your Macintosh:

mClick to place an X in the Auto-start PC checkbox.

To make the PC environment appear when you turn on your Macintosh:

1Click to place an X in the Switch at Startup checkbox.

2In the Control Panels folder, double-click the General Controls icon to open it.

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