Using an Apple Keyboard in Windows

Though I'm late posting in this thread, google leads to here when searching for the issue and posted links are already dead, so here is a complete solution:

Get brigadier.exe from https://github.com/timsutton/brigadier/releases

(You need to have 7-zip to be installed)

Call it from the command prompt e.g. "brigadier.exe -m MacBookPro13,1" (or something newer)

It'll download a recent version of BootCamp (e.g. 6) and unpack it. Delete everything except the Files AppleKeyboardInstaller64.exe and BootCamp.msi in the folder Drivers/Apple.

From a privileged command prompt, execute BootCamp.msi.

After a reboot, you have the bootcamp icon in the systray. Here you can switch the fn function.

For remapping some keys, I'm using sharpkeys: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys/releases

Works with Windows 10. (I've the issue that the BootCamp manager is quite slow in showing up and even hangs from time to time, but it still works)

HTH

Maybe you guys can help me, I don't have an issue with some functions not working, I just bought a magic keyboard for its essential keys, and portability. That being said I can't get it to respond to my windows 10, dell PC. It gets discovered by the usb bluetooth that I added, but once it asks me to type the pin, The keyboard does not respond at all... I can press any key and it won't respond.

I tried installing bootcamp drivers, which I THINK installed properly, but the keyboard just dosen't want to work with the PC. I also have another PC which I tried to process on and it didn't work. It works fine for my ipad and macbook though. Can anyone help solve this.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5636

Come on Apple, man up and write some decent Windows Only (no Boot Camp) drivers for your USB and Wireless Keyboards. Since Apple chooses the hardware for all Macs, it's simply not possible for me to use a Mac for everything I need to do. It's just silly that the keyboard I use with Windows is missing functionality due to Apple's "Mac Only" myopia. Would you rather I use a Microsoft Keyboard? I'm about to make the switch.

Go ahead and switch. Nobody here will care. These are user to user forums, so you are not addressing Apple by posting here.

Yes..I know. There are still people buying Apple devices for use with Windows and I want Google searches to find this page. Apple doesn't support these devices outside of Boot Camp. And after using Boot Camp for years, I can tell you they don't work too well in Boot Camp either. Apple's crappy drivers were designed to paint Windows in the palest light possible. It was a cheap charlatan's trick.

Apple sure has changed recently. I remember a time when Mac Pro's had tons of expansion capabilities and Mac Book Pros had great graphics. iPhones were small and elegant, not the of Android shape of today - an overused bar of soap. I remember a time when iPad was the future of computing...not a the quickly stagnant coffee table computer with shrinking sales - the Netbook of this decade. My Apple keyboard is the last Apple product I'm still using...my fingers still like it despite the failings. But it too is starting to wear on me. Why can't Apple get even this right? A simple keyboard? It's depressing.

I installed this driver that let's me use the fn keys plus the missing PrintScreen and Del 🙂

http://samartzidis.github.io/WinA1314/

Hello the link you provided says, "Page Not Found". Do you have a different link? Really would like to download that driver to get that functionality.

Thanks,

Bryant

Here you have it:

https://github.com/samartzidis/WinA1314

I am using this very useful small tool and couldn't be happier: http://uxsoft.cz/projects/apple-wireless-keyboard/

Just set it up to boot every time when you start Windows and you are done.

Do you know if this can work for the full size Wired Keyboards?

Babyboi wrote:

Do you know if this can work for the full size Wired Keyboards?

try it and find out.

Yes, I am using it for both the wired and wireless Apple keyboards. It works great. 🙂

Completely agree with this comment.