Apple Keyboard Support on a PC
September 28th, 2008
Filed under: Hardware, Low Technology

First of all I’ve only tested this with the new apple aluminum keyboard, but I assume it works just as well with all the other keyboards. I was sick of digging around on the internet to find an easy way to do this so I’m posting a guide.
- Boot into windows and plug in your beautiful apple keyboard.
- Download this driver package: http://www.filedropper.com/bc14-keyboard (select download this file)
- Unzip and run BootCamp.msi - DO NOT RUN AppleKeyboardInstaller.exe!!!
- Restart your computer when prompted to do so
- On restart your computer will LAG for ~10 seconds. This is because the BootCamp manager is searching for OSX partitions to no avail. After it times out you will be able to use your computer normally.
Known Issues:
- 10 second lag on login, this occurs regularly. As of right now there are no patches for this available.
- You can’t open the boot camp manager. This means that you can’t turn off the setting that allows for F1, F2, and F7 - F12 to act like their default Windows settings without pressing the “fn” key.
- Sometimes the boot camp manager doesn’t start. This happens occasionally, you can find the boot camp manager’s executable here: C:\Program Files\Boot Camp, the program is called: KbdMgr.exe








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