Download and install Windows support software on your Mac

After using Boot Camp Assistant to install or upgrade Microsoft Windows on your Mac, you lot might besides need to install the latest Windows support software (drivers) from Apple.

Boot Camp requires a Mac with an Intel processor.

When you install Microsoft Windows on your Mac, Kick Camp Assistant automatically opens the Kick Camp installer, which installs the latest Windows support software (drivers). If that doesn't happen, or y'all experience any of the post-obit bug while using Windows on your Mac, follow the steps in this commodity.

  • Your Apple mouse, trackpad, or keyboard isn't working in Windows.
    Forcefulness Impact isn't designed to work in Windows.
  • You 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.
  • One or more screen resolutions are unavailable for your display in Windows.
  • You can't accommodate the effulgence of your built-in display in Windows.
  • You have issues with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi in Windows.
  • You go an alert that Apple Software Update has stopped working.
  • You lot go a message that your PC has a driver or service that isn't set up for this version of Windows.
  • Your Mac starts upwardly to a blackness or blueish screen after you install Windows.

If your Mac has an AMD video bill of fare and is having graphics problems in Windows, you might need toupdate your AMD graphics drivers instead.

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Format a USB flash bulldoze

To install the latest Windows support software, you need a 16GB or larger USB wink drive formatted as MS-DOS (Fat).

  1. Kickoff your Mac from macOS.
  2. Plug the USB flash bulldoze into your Mac.
  3. Open up Disk Utility, which is in the Utilities binder of your Applications folder.
  4. Cull View > Evidence All Devices from the menu bar.
  5. From the sidebar in Deejay Utility, select your USB flash drive. (Select the drive proper noun, not the volume proper name below it.)
    Disk Utility window
  6. Click the Erase button or tab.
  7. Choose MS-DOS (FAT) as the format and Master Boot Record every bit the scheme.
  8. Click Erase to format the drive. When done, quit Disk Utility.

Download the Windows support software

After preparing your USB wink drive, complete these steps:

  1. Make sure that your Mac is connected to the Internet.
  2. Open Boot Camp Banana, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
  3. From the menu bar at the top of your screen, choose Action > Download Windows Back up Software, then choose your USB wink drive as the save destination. When the download completes, quit Boot Camp Assistant.
    Save dialog

Acquire what to do if you tin't download or save the Windows support software.

Install the Windows support software

Afterdownloading the Windows back up software to your flash drive, follow these steps to install the software. (If y'all're attempting to resolve issues with a Bluetooth mouse or keyboard, it might be easier to utilise a USB mouse or keyboard until these steps are consummate.)

  1. Make sure that the USB flash drive is plugged into your Mac.
  2. Start up your Mac in Windows.
  3. From File Explorer, open the USB flash drive, then open Setup or setup.exe, which is in the WindowsSupport binder or BootCamp binder. When you're asked to let Kick Camp to brand changes to your device, click Yes.
  4. Click Repair to begin installation. If yous get an alert that the software hasn't passed Windows Logo testing, click Continue Anyway.
  5. After installation completes, click Terminate, then click Yes when you're asked to restart your Mac.

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If you can't download or salvage the Windows support software:

  • If the assistant says that the Windows back up software could not be saved to the selected drive, or that the USB flash drive can't exist used, make sure that your USB flash drive has a storage capacity of at least 16GB and isformatted correctly.
  • If the assistant doesn't come across your USB flash drive, click Become Back and make sure that the drive is continued directly to the USB port on your Mac—not to a display, hub, or keyboard. Disconnect and reconnect the bulldoze, then click Continue.
  • If the assistant says that information technology tin can't download the software because of a network trouble, make sure that your Mac is connected to the Internet.
  • Make sure that your Mac meets the system requirements to install Windows using Boot Camp.

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

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