Download and install Windows support software on your Mac

After using Kick Campsite Banana to install or upgrade Microsoft Windows on your Mac, you might also demand to install the latest Windows support software (drivers) from Apple.

Boot Campsite requires a Mac with an Intel processor.

When you install Microsoft Windows on your Mac, Kicking Army camp Assistant automatically opens the Boot Camp installer, which installs the latest Windows support software (drivers). If that doesn't happen, or you lot experience any of the post-obit issues while using Windows on your Mac, follow the steps in this article.

  • Your Apple mouse, trackpad, or keyboard isn't working in Windows.
    Force Touch isn't designed to work in Windows.
  • Yous don't hear audio from the congenital-in speakers of your Mac in Windows.
  • The built-in microphone or photographic camera of your Mac isn't recognized in Windows.
  • I or more screen resolutions are unavailable for your display in Windows.
  • You can't adjust the brightness of your built-in brandish in Windows.
  • Y'all take issues with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi in Windows.
  • You get an alert that Apple tree Software Update has stopped working.
  • Y'all go a message that your PC has a commuter or service that isn't fix for this version of Windows.
  • Your Mac starts up to a black or blue screen after you install Windows.

If your Mac has an AMD video card and is having graphics issues in Windows, yous might need toupdate your AMD graphics drivers instead.

Install the latest macOS updates

Format a USB flash drive

To install the latest Windows back up software, you need a 16GB or larger USB flash drive formatted as MS-DOS (FAT).

  1. Get-go your Mac from macOS.
  2. Plug the USB flash drive into your Mac.
  3. Open Disk Utility, which is in the Utilities binder of your Applications folder.
  4. Choose View > Show All Devices from the menu bar.
  5. From the sidebar in Deejay Utility, select your USB flash drive. (Select the bulldoze name, non the book name beneath it.)
    Disk Utility window
  6. Click the Erase push button or tab.
  7. Choose MS-DOS (FAT) as the format and Master Boot Tape equally the scheme.
  8. Click Erase to format the drive. When done, quit Disk Utility.

Download the Windows support software

After preparing your USB flash bulldoze, complete these steps:

  1. Brand sure that your Mac is connected to the Internet.
  2. Open Boot Military camp Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
  3. From the card bar at the top of your screen, choose Action > Download Windows Support Software, so choose your USB flash bulldoze every bit the save destination. When the download completes, quit Boot Campsite Assistant.
    Save dialog

Larn what to practice if y'all can't download or salvage the Windows support software.

Install the Windows support software

Later ondownloading the Windows support software to your flash drive, follow these steps to install the software. (If yous're attempting to resolve issues with a Bluetooth mouse or keyboard, it might be easier to utilize a USB mouse or keyboard until these steps are complete.)

  1. Make sure that the USB flash drive is plugged into your Mac.
  2. Showtime upward your Mac in Windows.
  3. From File Explorer, open up the USB flash drive, then open Setup or setup.exe, which is in the WindowsSupport binder or BootCamp folder. When you're asked to permit Boot Camp to make changes to your device, click Yes.
  4. Click Repair to begin installation. If you go an alarm that the software hasn't passed Windows Logo testing, click Continue Anyway.
  5. Afterward installation completes, click Finish, then click Yep when you're asked to restart your Mac.

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If y'all can't download or save the Windows support software:

  • If the assistant says that the Windows support software could not be saved to the selected drive, or that the USB wink drive tin't exist used, make sure that your USB flash drive has a storage chapters of at least 16GB and isformatted correctly.
  • If the assistant doesn't see your USB wink bulldoze, click Go Dorsum and brand sure that the drive is connected directly to the USB port on your Mac—non to a brandish, hub, or keyboard. Disconnect and reconnect the drive, so click Continue.
  • If the assistant says that information technology can't download the software because of a network problem, make certain that your Mac is connected to the Internet.
  • Make sure that your Mac meets the arrangement requirements to install Windows using Boot Camp.

If a Mac feature nonetheless doesn't work later on updating the Windows back up software, search for your symptom on the Apple support website or Microsoft back up website. Some features of your Mac aren't designed to work in Windows.

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