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Monday, January 10, 2011

Apple wireless keyboard and Trackpad with Windows 7 64 bit - not good

While pairing and using Apple wireless keyboard and Apple wirelss trackpad on Mac OSX 10.6 is simply, enjoyable and almost magic in some of the moments, using the same 2 devices on Windows 7 64 bit is a totally difference story.  In fact, I still can't get the trackpad working properly on Windows 7 64 bit.  Notice that they are both connect to the same device (MacMini late 2009 edition), so I am absolutely sure that it's not hardware issue.

In fact, I almost couldn't even get the keyboard working.  The bluetooth recognize the device, but the pairing process never get completed.  That was until someone point out the following steps:

1. Device Manager
2. Click on "Bluetooth Radios"
3. Double Click on "Generic Bluetooth Driver" (Note: your driver may be something else, it really makes no difference, just pick the top most one)
4. Click on Driver Tab
5. Click Update Driver
6. Click Browse my computer....
7. Click "Let me pick..." (near the bottom of the dialog box)
8. Uncheck the box "Show Compatible Hardware"
9. Under Manufacturer, select Apple
10. Under Model, select "Apple Broadcom Built-in Bluetooth" The other two apple drivers did not work for me. Only this one does.
11. Follow remaining instructions.

That worked for me.  The wireless keyboard was being recognized AFTER the reboot. 

Honestly I can care less whether the Magic Trackpad works with the Windows 7 side since there was NO extra multitouch feature provided by the trackpad on the Windows 7 at all.  So I will just stick with the wireless mouse.

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