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Magic Mouse Guide for Windows 7 and Vista,,,

Hello All,

I recieved my Magic Mouse and it works great under OSX but I couldn't get it working under Windows at all. Searching here and around the web, I've compiled a guide on how I got it working. Hopefully, Apple will release proper drivers in the future but for now, here is what I did:

Turn mouse off...if you have already tried installing, remove the device and then turn the mouse off. To remove it, open Start, type "Devices" and press enter. Select "remove device"...Now let's get started:

1) Update the Bluetooth Driver.
Open Device Manager.
Start > (Right Click Computer) > Properties. Click Device Manager in upper left of this window. Double click (Bluetooth Radios), Right click on "Generic Bluetooth" and select "Properties". Open the Driver tab and then select "Update Driver". Click "Browse my computer for driver software". On the next screen, towards the bottom, click on "Let me pick from a list of device drivers...". Uncheck "Show compatible hardware". Select "Apple" and then "Apple built in bluetooth". Done

2)In the notification area of the task bar, right click on Bluetooth icon and select "Add a device". Turn on your mouse. It will show up on screen. Right click on the mouse icon. Select Properties. Select the "Services" tab and check the "Drivers for keyboard, mice, etc". The mouse may disappear from the screen since it's been added. Windows is still looking for other devices so click "Cancel".

3) Disable power management for Bluetooth Radio. Open device manager, open Bluetooth Radios and right click on "Apple Bluetooth". Select the "Power Management". Uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".

4) Reboot computer. Mouse should be working in Windows 7/Vista now.

* If you reboot and your mouse is still not working, click on the mouse two or three times. On my system, the mouse will not begin working until I do this, every time I boot my system. *

Hope this helps,

Al

Macbook Pro 13", Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Nov 3, 2009 4:13 PM

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Posted on Nov 5, 2009 1:42 AM

i have connected magic mouse on the first attempt to my mbp with win7 32bit bc.

left/right click ok, but no scrolling ..
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Feb 9, 2011 12:52 AM in response to Al Loper

@al loper

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Feb 21, 2011 6:47 AM in response to Al Loper

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate on a Lenovo Thinkpad.

I was able to install the Magic Mouse using the Microsoft bluetooth drivers.

I, however, can not get the scrolling functionality to work.

I have search for the Apple 32 bit bluetooth drivers for windows with little success. I did find the following driver - AppleBCUpdate.exe- however when I try to install it I get an error stating that "this update is not intended for this computer".. I believe this is a driver for Apple BootCamp.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Note: I did not have a "Generic Bluetooth" driver under my bluetooth radio in Device Manager.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks

Mar 27, 2011 12:01 AM in response to Al Loper

I'm having problem with my Magic mouse connecting to Windows 7 that is using latest Bootcamp 3.2. I'm using Macbook and another partition booting in Windows 7. I found my Magic Mouse keeps disconnecting after stop using for 20s.

Finally I found this is not the issue with Magic Mouse. It's problem with Bluetooth driver of Windows 7. Please unchecked option "Allow computer to turn off this device to save power". You can find this settings in Bluetooth settings. I've been looking for this solutions for quite sometime and hope this can help anymore having same problem like me. Please take a look of the following posting:

http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/bluetooth-mouse-losing-connection-no-m ore/

Jun 4, 2011 12:34 AM in response to vovanatb

Ok, just got mine to work. Essentially the instructions from the first post are correct but not complete. I'm using Windows 7 64 on a 24" 3.06.


So, in Bluetooth devices, click properties on the mouse, then select Hardware tab.

I have two items listed under device functions, one is Apple Wireless mouse, the other is HID compliant mouse. You'll notice under HID compliant mouse, under location it says "on Wireless Mouse". This is actually the trackpad portion of the mouse.


Highlight HID compliant mouse and click properties, a new dialoge box will appear, in the lower left click "Change Settings".

This will bring you to device manager dialogue of the HID compliant mouse.


Click on Driver tab, Update Driver, Browse my local computer for driver software, Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer, uncheck show compatible hardware, look for Apple Inc., and install the Apple Trackpad Enabler.


And that was it, no error on the driver install, everything works great. I hope this helps, and I'm sorry if this solution was posted already as I didn't read through all 6 pages of comments.


Good luck.

Aug 12, 2011 7:06 AM in response to Al Loper

I've been trying to get my Magic Mouse to work with the Windows 7 64-bit install on my PC (it's not a bootcamp install on a mac).


I can get the mouse to work with pointer, left click and right click, however I cannot get the scrolling to work. I've tried updating the driver manually to the Apple driver, however the driver is called 'Apple Mighty Mouse', not Magic mouse.


At this stage I'm thinking that my last resort is to get the drivers that were extracted from the bootcamp update. I've read a lot of articles talking about the drivers hwoever they all link to the uneasysilence website and the drivers are no longer available on the article.


Anybody know another place I could get the driver from?

Aug 15, 2011 2:47 AM in response to Al Loper

Hi!


I found the unique drivers which made the magic mouse work completely under Windows 7 x64 with scroll option on my PC laptop Lenovo SL510

Here is the link to the russian site post where the links and some instructions are posted.

Here is the link to x64 driver and this is the x32 driver


My magic mouse was successfully connected with windos 7, but the scroll didn't work.

I downloaded the driver, unpack it, run the DPInst.exe.... it installed the driver and mouse was disconnected for a short while... then just became active with scroll, but litlle bit slow in movement. I went to Control Panel - Mouse and set the arrow move to my comfortable speed - and that's all.


Good luck!

Sep 12, 2011 8:58 AM in response to nwmac

Lenovo w520 running win7 x64



Guys



AppleWirelessMouse64.exe doesn't seem to work for me. I installed it but under bluetooth radios, it still shows microsoft bluetooth enumerator and thinkpad bluetooth 3.0. I can't find a way out of that - manually pointing to AppleWirelessMouse64.exe extracted file doesn't work neither does choosing appple as a manfacturer as it isn't even listed



Any ideas?



thanks

Magic Mouse Guide for Windows 7 and Vista,,,

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