Where can I find Windows 10 Bluetooth drivers for my mid-2011 Macbook Pro?

To anyone in the future that's reading this.

The brightness controls not working is probably graphics driver related. The default driver that windows 10 finds won't work with the brightness controls. For me, volume, keyboard lights, ect... were all working except for brightness. I installed Nvidia's Geforce Experience and updated to the 1/27/16 driver (latest at the time of this post) and the brightness controls were working again.

If the screen's brightness isn't going as bright as you think it should, check power options, for auto brightness feature, and disable it. It was keeping my screen brightness at 50% ish even when I had it up all the way. (Room was semi dark).

ridhoyp's solution was promising, restoring some of the functionality, but in the end didn't work.

Part of the issue here is that different Mac's require different solutions, I think. The OP was looking for a solution for a mid-2011 MBP whereas most of the successful fixes here are for later machines.

My problem - I've running Windows 10 on my Late 2011 MBP in Bootcamp. I'd upgraded from Windows 7 where I'd been running bluetooth sucessfully. However, the Late 2011 MBP is not supported by Apple for Windows 10 though many people are using it successfully nevertheless. After some fiddling with Windows Services I got my Magic Mouse and Apple Keyboard working okay. However in the past little while, I noticed that I could not connect to my BT speaker or other devices. In fact, the speaker wasn't discoverable, but only on this machine. In the course of taking online advice, I deleted my Magic Mouse from Bluetooth, and then it wasn't discoverable either, and my keyboard had also dropped off for no apparent reason.

So the search for drivers.... I did a uninstall and reinstall using the default Apple driver, but the problem persisted. I tried ridhyop's solution, which made the mouse and keyboard discoverable (improvement), but pairing was too flaky to work. I search on!

I have my Power Options control panel set as follows:

Turn off Display = 5 minutes.

Put the computer to sleep = 15 minutes.

If I set the latter to "Never" is that what you'd recommend?

Ok, thanks.

I downloaded and searched through the Bootcamp.xml file.

These seem to be the relevant lines:

<Name>Apple Built-in Bluetooth

<InfName>AppleBT.inf</InfName>

<Class>Bluetooth</Class>

<ClassGUID>{e0cbf06c-cd8b-4647-bb8a-263b43f0f974}</ClassGUID>

<CatalogFile>AppleBT.CAT</CatalogFile>

<Provider> "Apple Inc."</Provider>

<DriverVer>03/01/2010, 3.0.0.5</DriverVer>

<ServiceBinary>applebt.sys</ServiceBinary>

<HardwareID></HardwareID>

<isX64>no</isX64>

</Name>

<Name>Apple Built-in Bluetooth

<InfName>AppleBT64.inf</InfName>

<Class>Bluetooth</Class>

<ClassGUID>{e0cbf06c-cd8b-4647-bb8a-263b43f0f974}</ClassGUID>

<CatalogFile>AppleBT64.CAT</CatalogFile>

<Provider>"Apple Inc."</Provider>

<DriverVer>03/01/2010, 3.0.0.5</DriverVer>

<ServiceBinary>applebt.sys</ServiceBinary>

<HardwareID></HardwareID>

<isX64>yes</isX64>

</Name>

<Name>Apple Broadcom Built-in Bluetooth

<InfName>AppleBTBC64.inf</InfName>

<Class>Bluetooth</Class>

<ClassGUID>{e0cbf06c-cd8b-4647-bb8a-263b43f0f974}</ClassGUID>

<CatalogFile>AppleBTBC64.CAT</CatalogFile>

<Provider>"Apple Inc."</Provider>

<DriverVer>04/10/2013, 5.0.4.0</DriverVer>

<ServiceBinary>AppleBtBc.sys</ServiceBinary>

<HardwareID></HardwareID>

<isX64>yes</isX64>

I downloaded Sysinternals Autoruns, and ran it under Administrator, and turned AppleHFS.sys off, and then created a Restore Point without difficulty.

Then I extracted the Broadcom Drivers folder and ran BroadcomCardWirelessLegacy64.exe. However, it gave an error saying that:

"The Device Driver Installation Wizard did not update any of your software for your hardware devices because it was not better than the software that you currently have installed."

I tried rolling back my installed driver, and then running it, and I tried to install the drivers manually, but couldn't find them independently of the package. Also not sure why a Wireless driver will help Bluetooth.

Next steps, please?

I had a slight diversion: the restore did not work, with me getting the error:

System Restore failed 0x80070091 in Windows 10 (Solved)

Having followed Method 2 in the link above, I now have restore working.

Back to the Bluetooth drawing board...

I had some initial problems with BT on W7 but got it working by updating the drivers without trouble.

So, as I said, I tried some more driver solutions that I found on other threads:

Bootcamp Drivers Windows 10 - Microsoft Community This one involved repeating the Legacy driver install that you suggested above, but setting it to compatibility mode using Properties. I then did the same thing with the other Broadcom drivers as follows:

I then did a full round of manually updating the Bluetooth drivers to the Broadcom drivers from the 20702, 2070 etc

ie. Device Manager>>Bluetooth>>Apple Broadcom Bluetooth>>Properties>>Driver Tab>>Update Driver Button>>

- Browse>>Let Me Pick>>Have Disk>>Apple 5.1.5621<Return>

Select Model:

Broadcom 20702 & 2070 various nonUSB sets.

Restore regularly and try again.

All no go.

Your mouse, if paired to both Mac and Windows, can cause issues. Can you un-pair the mouse from the Mac side, so that there are no devices paired to it an then try to pair it to Windows first, and then pair it to macOS. Having a standby wired mouse is very helpful when trying this.

If you do not have any active BT drivers, you may also want to consider disabling W10 Signature enforcement, and re-installing BC drivers using setup.exe from the BC5.x drivers package.

Run msinfo>

>System Information app opens:

>>System summary

>>>Hardware resources

Item Value

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home

Version 10.0.14393 Build 14393

...

BIOS Version/Date Apple Inc. MBP81.88Z.0047.B3A.1706170652, 17/6/2017

SMBIOS Version 2.4

BIOS Mode Legacy

I went away for a few hours to a meeting. On my return, the Mouse connects without trouble, but the Wireless Keyboard, which had been discoverable every time a few hours ago, is no longer discoverable at all. I noticed that it had connected it (unintentionally) to one of my other Macs, so I then deleted the keyboard from that Mac, but if that was the interference, it didn't go back to normal after that.

Sorry, I've not looked at this over the weekend.

The keyboard will no longer pair, though it was doing this routinely after I first deleted it from the Mac side of the MBP.

The mouse and an iMac connect to bluetooth automatically without trouble. I've put in new batteries in the keyboard, powered the MBP up and down, turned Bluetooth off and on, and not sure what else that I can do to get the keyboard to be recognised.

Thanks for your patience with all of this.

Yes, I've done that. My iMac keeps trying to pair with my MBP Keyboard (it has it's own). I also found my MBP keyboard had the identical name to a third keyboard we have for a MB Air that we have. I've renamed it to something different. I'm now getting the pairing option regularly for my Apple Wireless keyboard, and you can see the keyboard connecting (two quick flashes regularly repeated on the green LED). However, the pairing option that comes up is wrong. It says:

Enter the Password for your keyboard

You may need to enter the same password on your keyboard.

<Entry panel>

Or try entering a passcode into it.

I was expecting a six digit number to enter on to my Bluetooth keyboard like I get with the Mac side.

Anyway, I tried entering a six digit password on the MBP Windows Bluetooth interface, then hitting Next, then entering the same password on the Bluetooth keyboard. The Bluetooth keyboard acts like it's connecting (two flash routine continues) but then nothing happens. It goes to sleep after a couple of minutes, and you can wake it up, and it flashes again, but nothing happens.

After five or ten minutes and it still showing "Connecting" to the left of a moving circle icon, I just cancel out of the Password interface.

I think I finally got it. I not only got all my other Macs to forget my keyboard, but shut them down.

All of a sudden they all worked without problems. I connected the Apple Wireless Keyboard using the interface above, using 000000 as the password in the Bluetooth panel, and then hitting next and typing the same password into the Wireless Keyboard.

I then tried to connect my Bluetooth headphones, which was the whole objective from weeks ago, when I started this process. Again, it was recognised, bu wouldn't pair. I applied the same logic and turned off my iPhone which it turns out it was pairing too.

I've then added the keyboard and mouse back to the Mac side of the MBP, and rebooted one both sides. I've booted up and down my iMac and got no interference or other problems.

I'm embarrassed that such a simple oversight caused this.

Ruadh2 wrote:

I'm embarrassed that such a simple oversight caused this.

No worries. I have run into similar issues, with a couple of Macminis around the house, I have to turn off BT on all sink devices before I can pair a source with a specific device.

Not sure why this isn't the accepted answer. I tried everything else and couldn't get my Bluetooth mouse connected to my new MacBook Pro 2016 (running windows 10 bootcamp) UNTIL I followed these steps.

Thanks for the solution!!