Another issue I have had with Windows 8 in Bootcamp on a Mac is that the trackpad drivers did not initially install correctly and I wasn’t able to use it at all. I was able to solve that by following these steps.
Go to Device Manager and on the two “Touchpad” entries with the bang on them, go to “Update Driver” -> “Browse My Computer” -> “Let me pick from a list…” and change them both to USB Input Device. Reboot.
Go back to Device Manager, do an “Update Driver” again, let it search automatically, and one comes back as Apple Multitouch and the other as Apple Multitouch Mouse. Reboot again, trackpad will be working and will show up in Boot Camp control panel.
This is a very good finding. Only minor issue is the not “USB Input Device”. Its “USB device” and the select USB Composite Device’. Thanks very much.
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Thanks!
Guys, this does work! Solved my issue.
Your an absolute legend, thank you for sharing this.
I am not able to find touchpad entries in device manager please help me
and please give me trackpad drivers for windows 8.1
Thank you very much for the solution .. was driving me mad Rob
I had the same issue in Windows 10 on a mid 2012 Retina MBP with Boot Camp 6. Apple Software Update was crashing. This fix worked like a charm. The only other issue I had was that the Boot Camp Manager was missing from the Taskbar. The fix was to go to “Select Which Icons appear on the Taskbar” in the Taskbar search window and set the Boot Camp Manager to “On”.
Thanks a bunch for this simple but effective fix.
Thank you so much for posting this advice! Have dual boot on old old white macbook 2008 and if not thanks to your post, I would have had to go back to W7. I wanted to avoid that because W10 is actually faster and more responsive after I upgraded memory to 4BG than W7 was with new modules.Trackpad working fine. Thank you so so much! :)))))
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I had a Windows 10 update yesterday that killed my 2009 MacBook’s trackpad. These instructions got it back. Thanks!
Hello,
Thank you!! This did work for me but there’s other issues – the right click function is not working on the touchpad when I click with two fingers. And the page doesn’t move when I move two fingers on the touch pad. Also the tap function is not working. I can only use left click on my touch pad. Could anyone help me with it? Thanks! Really appreciate!
Hi – I am having this issue. Did you find out how to fix it?
Thank you very much for the tips. This works on Windows 10 Pro 1511 10586.104 on a bootcamp’ed Late-2011 MacBook Pro. I lost Trackpad and Mouse after the latest Windows 10 upgrade. Thanks again!
This did not work for me. It’s laid out a little bit differently in Windows 10, but I found the device manager and after clicking on update driver software for touchpad (I had two of them with an error sign), I received another message that said windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information in the registry is incomplete or damaged. Code 19. Told me to check the manufacturer’s website for driver software, which I am off to do right now.
Read the above instructions and try again.
After clicking update, choose change to USB input device. Once you reboot they should not have the exclamation points.
At this point your trackpad should work as a normal mouse, but without the functions such as scroll and right click.
You need to continue the above instructions and update the USB input device until they recognize the Apple devices. (Try each of the USB devices)
Once you do that, reboot, and magic! It works!
After the step 1 above and after reboot; when I tried to update driver for ‘USB Composite Device’ or any other USB devices, it just says the device driver is up to date.. Please help to get the track pad back.
Help – in Windows 10, when I click update driver software, I see the browse option, but no option to change to USB device. What am I missing?
Lee
Thanks! This fixed my problem!
After the step 1 above and after reboot; when I tried to update driver for ‘USB Composite Device’ or any other USB devices, it just says the device driver is up to date.. Please help to get the track pad back.
I have no Touchpad entries There are three entries for Mice but none for touchpad
amazing, thank you so much!
Fantastic!!! Thanks so much for posting this fix, it worked perfectly
Great. Thanks a lot. Worked for me in Windows 10 Macbook Pro. You need to follow all of the steps.
The only difference for me was that, after the first step of changing the two Touchpad entries to USB input devices and restarting, those were then listed as USB input devices so I needed to repeat the second stage for the USB input devices which were listed under ‘Human Interface Devices’ in Device Manager.
Thanks again for this.
This worked great!! You are a genius. Thanks.
As long as its USB input it worked fine on Windows 10, but when i update it to Apple Multi-Touch, it goes back as frisky as before.
Mate, you are my favorite hero of the day. Thanks for the help.
Can anyone clarify where to change device to USB Device? On the Bootcamp drive with Win 10, I go to Device manager, and I find Apple Multi-Touch TouchPad under Human Interface Devices. I right click on one of the two devices and on Update Driver. I Browse for Driver Software and click Let me Pick from a List of Device Drivers and a window comes up telling me the Best Driver Software for Your Device is Already Installed. That’s all the choices I see. What am I doing wrong?
Lee
Could you please fill in the details on how to get scroll and right click back? I can update the driver software all day but I still can’t scroll. Otherwise, it worked great–at least I have some trackpad functions back.