I just noticed, that a utility that I use, called “WinRestart” doesn’t seem to have much publicity… Â It’s a simple utility that will reboot the Macintosh, but you can selective restart to a specific partition, just for the next reboot.
Typically with Bootcamp, you select the Windows partition, and then after you are done on the Windows side, you have to select to reboot to the Macintosh side…
With Winrestart, you just run Winrestart, the system will logout & reboot, and then your in windows / linux / etc. Â No messy control panels, etc. Â Once your done, just select to reboot the Windows system, and it’ll reboot over to the Macintosh. Â Once again, no messy boot camp control panels, etc.
It’s the equivalent of rebooting, and selecting the Windows partition from the Boot Drive select screen (hold down option at boot up).