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Q: Fn not working in Win 7 + BC Control Panel oddness

Hello all,

 

I am aware this kind of question has been asked many times before so I have tried to do some research for similar posts and solutions but had no luck. The situation is I have recently bought a 5K iMac and then had the task of transferring everything I could from my older iMac, which had a Windows/BC partition and an OS X one. Managed all that fine tho albeit not as straight forward on the Windows side, but that is for another topic. The BC software/drivers I used were downloaded and installed by the BCA as recommended by Apple btw, so I believe are v5.1.7 or so.

 

The oddness is that when using the Bootcamp Control Panel in Windows is that the Apply/OK/Cancel buttons don't seem to work properly so for example clicking Cancel doesn't close the window, Apply doesn't become greyed out and OK doesn't do either. Yet it does seem (the tick-box remains ticked after closing) to save the setting you chose such as for the Fn keys and also the panel for choosing your startup disk seems to work correctly including the Restart button.

I can't help think that this is related to do with being unable to get the Fn key functions working under Windows (it definitely works in OS X).

 

Have tried a few things already such as running a repair on the Bootcamp Services program and reinstalling/repairing everything from the USB device I installed Win 7 from, which has the downloaded BC software on it. The only things I haven't tried, which I am reluctant to try without advice as it may cause more problems, is either deleting the Bootcamp program then reinstalling it or reverting to an older version of the software/drivers from the Apple Support site...however the latter I fear would make things worse.

 

If anyone has come across this before or have any better suggestions then I let me know please

 

Thanks,

iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), Windows 7 installed via Bootcamp.

Posted on Jun 23, 2015 1:43 AM

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  • by Larsinator3000,

    Larsinator3000 Larsinator3000 Jun 26, 2015 4:04 AM in response to Loner T
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    Jun 26, 2015 4:04 AM in response to Loner T

    But the keyboard is exactly the same since years so it doesn't make a difference whether you install the keyboard drivers from the newest or an older version of the Bootcamp driver pack. Besides that the newest version seems to be buggy ..

  • by XLR8,

    XLR8 XLR8 Jun 26, 2015 4:17 AM in response to Larsinator3000
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    Jun 26, 2015 4:17 AM in response to Larsinator3000

    Thank you both, I will certainly give your idea a try tonight though, tho do need to reset NVRAM etc too, just on the off chance it improves graphics issues in Windows. I am inclined to agree that an older keyboard driver version shouldn't cause a problem, I may have a look on my old iMac to see what version it is using and install that as there may be a newer version than the one you found that still works.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Jun 26, 2015 5:03 AM in response to Larsinator3000
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    Jun 26, 2015 5:03 AM in response to Larsinator3000

    I have had to use 4.x drivers for multi-touch to work correctly on some Macs. I am not certain what Apple BC Engineers' thinking is when there is already a working driver, why break it? The BT and non-BT drivers are separate anyway.

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