Apple Keyboard Support on a PC

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.

  1. Boot into windows and plug in your beautiful apple keyboard.
  2. Download this driver package:  http://www.filedropper.com/bc14-keyboard (select download this file)
  3. Unzip and run BootCamp.msi - DO NOT RUN AppleKeyboardInstaller.exe!!!
  4. Restart your computer when prompted to do so
  5. 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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