Comment 2 for bug 234002

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Laurence (l-d-anderson) wrote :

According to:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/08d64d13-4f45-4a05-bd86-c99211a93dd91033.mspx

its possible to temporarily change the boot order for the next boot only (Vista and above). So you could have an icon to say "Reboot into Ubuntu" and the user wouldn't have to do anything at the boot menu, and next time their computer would go into Windows as normal.

I guess you could even have an option to not change the boot menu at all, so on normal boot the user doesn't see anything different, and only running the program in the start menu would temporarily change the boot order and reboot into Ubuntu. Then it would really look like Ubuntu has been installed as a "normal" Windows program, and would not concern the user that they now get this strange textual menu every time they start their computer.