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How to get Apple peripherals to work on a Windows PC

Published: 8 February, 2024

This guide will help you get your Apple Studio Display, ProDisplay XDR, Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, etc. to work with a Windows 11 PC that doesn’t have native support for BootCamp. I wrote this guide because most methods that I could find elsewhere were either out of date, had sketchy download links, had compatibility issues with Windows 11 version 23H2, didn't support Windows Precision Touchpad, didn’t support all the modules in the BootCamp app, or didn’t explain how to get the most up to date Apple official drivers.

Please note that to get Apple displays to work will require either a thunderbolt output from your graphics card or the right DisplayPort to USB-C cable. Please refer to other guides elsewhere to find out what hardware you’ll need.

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Preliminary installation

meyer

10.7 (Lion)

• https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog

10.8 (Mountain Lion)

• https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
• https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-mountainlionseed-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog

10.9 (Mavericks)

• https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
• https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.9seed-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog

TheZoc

;
; Apple Wireless Keyboard Eject Key and Function kKey remapper for Windows.
; You can get the latest version of this file at:
; https://gist.github.com/TheZoc/a913642e9bedf62ba3ef
;
;==========================================================================================================================================
; Please, if you make a significant change, fix or would like to improve this script,
; I'd really appreciate if you can contact me so we can merge both works :)
;==========================================================================================================================================
;

jitbit

;
; AutoHotkey Version: 1.x
; Language:       English
; Platform:       Win9x/NT
; Author:         Matt Heath <matt@mattheath.com>
;
; Script Function:
;	Remaps keys when using an Apple Keyboard with a Windows PC
;

zsimic

{
    /* ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict

        See https://gist.github.com/zsimic/1367779, prefix cheatsheet:
        Char Short Key
        $    S-    Shift ⇧
        ^    C-    CTRL ⌃
        ~    O-    Option ⌥ (⊞ Win key position on PC)
        @    M-    Command ⌘ (Alt position on PC)
        #          Numeric Keypad