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Ease Mac OS / Windows Boot Camp switching
Authored by: ebullient on Sat, Jan 10 2009 at 9:58AM PST

The above can also be simplified to:

do shell script "bless -mount /Volumes/WINDOWS/ -legacy -setBoot -nextonly; shutdown -r now" with administrator privileges

such that you don't include your password in the script, and are only prompted for it once. Also (for the unwary) make sure that WINDOWS matches your Windows partition name (check what's in the /Volumes directory to be sure).