For more information about using Windows on your Mac, click the Open Boot Camp Help button in Boot Camp Assistant. These resources also contain helpful information: Create an ISO image for Boot Camp from Windows installation media; Use your Apple Keyboard in Windows with Boot Camp * These Mac models were offered with 128GB hard drives as an option.
All I see is how to use a Windows keyboard in Bootcamp or how to capture screens in OSX. none of this is useful. The closest I have come is an article with about 50 posts going 'Use this combination' 'No that doesn't work' 'This combination' 'Nope, neiher' 'This one works' 'No it doesn't'. Not helpful at all...
So let me be clear:
I am NOT on a Mac and NOT in Botcamp and DON'T have bootcamp drivers installed. I CANT boot in OSX, format a USB stick and download all the support content for my MAC, place it on the stick and boot into Bootcamp because I am NOT on a Mac.
I am on a pure-bred PC but all the keyboards I have tried sucks worse than the language I am allowed to use to describe it. I want to use my Apple Keyboard that I have been using since 2007 but Windows does not have all the screen capture abilities unless I use Snipe and then manually save every screen capture I do. That or use a Windows keyboard with a PrintScreen button.
What i don't want to do is plug in a Mac and Windows keyboard just so I can have the PrintScreen handy on my second keyboard when I need it. Hopefully by now my needs will be clear enough to not be sent on more wild goose chases to topics that are the exact opposite of what I'm asking:
I am NOT on a Mac, I am running Win10 on a PC, I have an Apple Keyboard. How do I do a PrintScreen?
Thanks
If you want to setup Keyboard and Trackpad after installing Windows 10 using Boot Camp on a MacBook, then this is there to guide you. If you’re going to use a dedicated keyboard and mouse, you may not set these up. But, if you want to set the inbuilt keyboard and trackpad of MacBook, then we will show you how to set them up for Windows 10.
Use Boot Camp to setup Keyboard & Trackpad in Windows 10 on Mac
Although, Windows 10 can detect the Keyboard layout of your MacBook, yet, you may not be able to use the Function keys (F1-F12). Moreover, the brightness of backlit keyboard may not be set at all. Again, you may not be able to install any mouse driver as well, since MacBook doesn’t ship with a mouse.
To solve all these problems, you need to open Boot Camp Control Panel. You do not have to install it since you have already installed Windows on MacBook using Boot Camp.
To open it, open system tray and locatethe Boot Camp icon, right-click on it and select Boot Camp Control Panel.
After opening the Boot Camp Control Panel, switch from Startup Disk tab to Keyboard or Trackpad tab.
Keyboard settings:
By default, the Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys may not be turned On. If you turn it On, you can use all the special functionalities of those function keys. You can change volume or adjust the brightness of backlit keyboard. However, you need to press key between F1 to F12 along with the Function key (Fn) of your keyboard.
The second option will let you turn on/off the keyboard backlight for a particular amount of time. You can choose from 5 seconds to Never, as per your requirements.
Trackpad settings:
In the Trackpad tab, you can enable these:
- Tap to click: By default, you need to press the trackpad until it clicks. If you enable this option, you can just tap on the trackpad to [left] click somewhere.
- Dragging
- Drag lock
- Secondary tap: It works like the right-click.
- Secondary click: If you enable this option, you can press the bottom right/left corner of the trackpad to get the right-click menu.
You can either enable Secondary Tap or the Secondary Click at any one time.
If you are having trouble with the MacBook keyboard layout, you can use Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator.
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