boot camp icon/app missing in windows

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boot camp icon/app missing in windows

I am running Boot Camp Windows 10 Pro on an external drive. Everything appears to be okay within Windows environment with drivers, updates and apps working just fine. Unfortunately I am unable to find Boot Camp in the taskbar (bottom right, next to clock). It's also not showing in the notifications settings and I cannot find it anywhere among running applications/tasks. I have installed drivers after first downloading the WindowsSupport folder.

It would be great to have Boot Camp in taskbar for quick switching to MacOS. For now I'm forced to use 'Option' key method.

I hope someone can provide a solution. Thanks in advance!

iMac with Retina 5K display, iOS 11.3

Posted on Mar 30, 2018 8:47 PM

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raf80 Author

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Apr 1, 2018 3:47 PM in response to Loner T

I've installed Boot camp drivers from Windows Support folder. Some drivers (e.g: graphics, audio) were later updated further with Windows Update. Audio didn't even work until Windows updated it. Last time I opened Windows, a new problem came up - Magic Mouse 2 stopped working and would no longer pair, even though it did work the day before. I had to borrow my gf's Logitech mouse. Per your advice I've decided to run the installer in Windows Support folder again. This time it froze and after letting it run for over 2 hours I had to force shutdown. Frustrated I didn't even try checking Boot Camp drive since then. I will reformat it and start from scratch.

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