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Windows 8 and Bootcamp - Privilege Error

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mds1256

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Apr 9, 2011
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Got new 2012 macbook air i5 13 and went to install Windows 8 as a bit of a test and I know bootcamp is not officially supported yet but...

Boot camp fully installs but when you try to open the control panel for boot camp e.g. to change the trackpad options etc it comes up with an error saying I dont have the privilege to change the startup disk and then closes bootcamp down so I cannot change any settings.

I have managed to enable right click by messing with the registry and changing it to 0x6e and that works fine but has anyone got latest version of boot camp working on windows 8 with no errors?
 
Hi, where is the registry hack you're using documented? Would like to use it - thanks!
 
Sorry for not contributing anything, but I'm having a similar problem. Just put W8 on my 2012 MBA and I can't open the Boot Camp Control panel. Anyone have a fix for this?
 
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I suggest you complain to Apple and get them to fix their janky software :)
 
I'm curious as I haven't tried... but on these newish machines where Apple themselves has automatically enabled AHCI (thus causing the control panel to break) - does this happen on Windows 7 as well as Windows 8? I have only tried the latter, but assuming the hardware is seen the same way under Win7 it would happen there as well, which *is* already officially supported by Apple, leaving users in the lurch (not that this would be surprising).
 
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