{"id":659468,"date":"2013-05-21T10:22:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=152755"},"modified":"2013-05-21T10:22:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:22:07","slug":"reboot-to-launches-the-os-you-need-direct-from-the-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659468","title":{"rendered":"Reboot-To launches the OS you need direct from the desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-152756 alignright\" title=\"reboot to\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/reboot-to-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/>If you\u2019ve installed multiple operating systems on a PC then normally, when your system starts, you\u2019ll have to choose the one you need from a boot menu. And while this isn\u2019t difficult in any way, it can be a minor irritation, especially if you\u2019re switching between operating systems on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Install <a title=\"Reboot-To\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/30291-reboot-to\" >Reboot-To<\/a>, though, and you\u2019ll have another option. When you need to restart your PC, just choose one of your installed operating systems from the Reboot-To menu &#8212; Window Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Ubuntu (wubi) and Ubuntu Server (wubi) are supported &#8212; and it\u2019ll reboot directly into that OS, without you ever seeing the boot menu at all.<\/p>\n<p>Reboot-To is straightforward to install, and by default sets itself up to run when Windows starts, adding a Windows service and an icon to your system tray. This is a little more intrusive than we were expecting, but presumably is just to ensure that you can reboot your system as quickly as possible. Fortunately the background processes are extremely lightweight, generally consuming less than 2MB RAM on our test PC, and you can turn them off if you prefer (select &#8220;Options&#8221;, clear &#8220;Start with Windows&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Once setup is complete, though, the program is straightforward enough to use. When you want to restart your system, right-click the Reboot-To icon, select Reboot &gt; Operating System, choose one of your installed operating systems, and it\u2019ll reboot directly into that OS &#8212; no need to worry about the boot menu.<\/p>\n<p>The change is just temporary, of course. If you install and run Reboot-To on Windows 7, for instance, and reboot it to Windows 8, then the boot menu will only disappear for that one time. If you reboot from Windows 8 then the boot menu will return. (Unless you install and use Reboot-To from there, anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>Allowing a program to play around with our system\u2019s BCD (Boot Configuration Data) files in this way makes us just a little nervous. It\u2019s carrying out a very simple and defined task, and there shouldn\u2019t be any problems, ever, but we\u2019d still recommend that you have a Windows recovery disc to hand, just in case.<\/p>\n<p>That aside, though, in our tests <a title=\"Reboot-To\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/30291-reboot-to\" >Reboot-To<\/a> worked very well, and if you\u2019re regularly booting between various Windows installations then it could save you some time and hassle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=PIxXvPHOhq8:-62PzLqs-Hg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=PIxXvPHOhq8:-62PzLqs-Hg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/PIxXvPHOhq8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve installed multiple operating systems on a PC then normally, when your system starts, you\u2019ll have to choose the one you need from a boot menu. And while this isn\u2019t difficult in any way, it can be a minor irritation, especially if you\u2019re switching between operating systems on a regular basis. Install Reboot-To, though, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}