Download and install Windows support software on your Mac

Later on using Boot Camp Assistant to install or upgrade Microsoft Windows on your Mac, y'all might also need to install the latest Windows back up software (drivers) from Apple.

Kicking Camp requires a Mac with an Intel processor.

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

  • Your Apple mouse, trackpad, or keyboard isn't working in Windows.
    Forcefulness Bear upon isn't designed to piece of work in Windows.
  • You lot don't hear sound from the congenital-in speakers of your Mac in Windows.
  • The congenital-in microphone or camera of your Mac isn't recognized in Windows.
  • One or more screen resolutions are unavailable for your display in Windows.
  • You can't adapt the brightness of your born brandish in Windows.
  • Y'all have issues with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi in Windows.
  • You get an alert that Apple Software Update has stopped working.
  • Yous get a bulletin that your PC has a driver or service that isn't set for this version of Windows.
  • Your Mac starts upwards to a black or blue screen afterwards y'all install Windows.

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

Install the latest macOS updates

Format a USB flash bulldoze

To install the latest Windows support software, you lot need a 16GB or larger USB flash bulldoze formatted as MS-DOS (Fatty).

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

Download the Windows support software

Subsequently preparing your USB flash drive, complete these steps:

  1. Make sure that your Mac is connected to the Cyberspace.
  2. Open Kicking Camp Assistant, which is in the Utilities binder of your Applications folder.
  3. From the bill of fare bar at the top of your screen, choose Action > Download Windows Support Software, then choose your USB flash drive every bit the save destination. When the download completes, quit Kicking Military camp Banana.
    Save dialog

Learn what to practise if you tin can't download or save the Windows support software.

Install the Windows support software

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

  1. Make sure that the USB flash drive is plugged into your Mac.
  2. Commencement up your Mac in Windows.
  3. From File Explorer, open the USB wink bulldoze, then open Setup or setup.exe, which is in the WindowsSupport folder or BootCamp binder. When you lot're asked to permit Boot Military camp to make changes to your device, click Yeah.
  4. Click Repair to brainstorm installation. If yous get an alarm that the software hasn't passed Windows Logo testing, click Continue Anyway.
  5. Later on installation completes, click Finish, and then click Yep when you're asked to restart your Mac.

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If you can't download or save 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, brand sure that your USB wink drive has a storage capacity of at least 16GB and isformatted correctly.
  • If the assistant doesn't run into your USB wink bulldoze, click Go Back and make certain that the drive is connected direct to the USB port on your Mac—not to a display, hub, or keyboard. Disconnect and reconnect the drive, then click Continue.
  • If the assistant says that it can't download the software because of a network problem, brand sure that your Mac is continued to the Cyberspace.
  • Make sure that your Mac meets the organization requirements to install Windows using Kick Campsite.

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

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