Start-up disk selection very slow, how to speed up.

I have multiple Operating Systems on my MBP and in order to boot form one in to the other I hold the Alt key at start-up. However, having several MBP', i5 on one machine it is extremely slow. It takes almost 2 minutes before the choice of disks appear, it is a i5, MacBookPro6,2.
Is there a way of speeding this up? Alernatively, is there maybe a Mac utility where I can choose the start-up disk from (not using the control panel as this would permanently change the start-up disk and I want the Mac OS to be the default OS) and invoke a restart?
Love to hear.

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ChangeAgent wrote:
ds store wrote:
Sounds like your EFI is corrupted.
So my question was how one fixes that? Rest, un-corrupt.
I must have been tired, I meant "EFI and/or the GUID partition table"
You'll have to backup your files off the machine, erase and install 10.6, software update to 10.6.8, install all OS X programs, setup bootcamp again and can only install Windows 7 (not XP or Vista.) Return files from backup.
Follow these steps, you need to erase the ENTIRE drive of all partitions to catch the hidden EFI partition and rebuild the GUID partition table anew
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
Your direct boot XP days are history on your Mac, it's the Apple way to burn their bridges behind them faster and faster every year.
You might want to use a virtual machine instead, but there is a performance hit.
Windows in BootCamp or Virtual Machine?

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