Is it at all possible to switch between Windows and Ubuntu by press of a button, on a system with Windows 7 - Ubuntu 11.10 dual boot set up?
You cannot have two operating systems running next to each other at the same time. So there is no way to simply press a button and go to Windows.
What you could do is use virtualization, for example using VirtualBox. You boot one operating system normally, and run the other operating system in a virtual machine inside VirtualBox.
Note that there are some limitations to this - the OS running in the virtual machine does not have direct access to the hardware, so performance might be a little lower and 3D graphics etc. won't work as well as when running natively.
