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Brad Bishop

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Dec 29, 2014
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Hopefully this will help others. I searched both the forums here and Google and I kept getting the same answers for this which was "Select HID device from Options".

Having finally figured this out, I thought I'd share:

After you have your keyboard, Magic Mouse, or Trackpad connected go to your Windows Install USB drive which was created when you went through the Bootcamp process under OS X, and dig down to Drivers->Apple and run the application which is obvious (for trackpad, keyboard, or whatever). That then fixes it and you'll have a fully functional peripheral. After it installs it you'll get a popup like, "Are you sure it installed correctly?" Then just click on, "Yes, it was installed correctly."

The drivers down in those directories for bootcamp aren't like normal windows drivers (.inf files) they're actual executables that need to be run to set things up.


Note: I think the trackpad really did require me to go into Properies (in the Bluetooth Add Devices dialog, right click on the trackpad, before adding, go to Properies, check the one box which is something like, "This is a mouse or like device") in order for it to connect via Bluetooth.

Hope this helps. It took me a few days to figure it out.

If you don't run these executables your keyboard may still work and your mouse may still work but you'll miss functionality like being able to swap your function keys for the hardware control keys (brightness, volume, etc.) in the Bootcamp menu and your "wheel" on your magic mouse won't work.
 
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