MAP MAC KEYBOARD TO WINDOWS DRIVER
MAP MAC KEYBOARD TO WINDOWS PC

Fn + F key triggers function (useful when in F keys mode).

Under Key, choose the key you want to reassign from the drop-down menu, or select Type and enter a key. If the keyboard options are grayed out, select the Enable Keyboard Manager switch. What’s nice is just like a Mac when you press those function keys, there will be an on screen prompt fade in/out icon to indicate what you have just pressed, pretty cool. Open Power Toys and select Keyboard Manager in the left sidebar. Press the following key on an Apple Keyboard with this tool installed on a Windows you will get the following function.

MAP MAC KEYBOARD TO WINDOWS DRIVER

This is basically the missing Apple Keyboard Driver* for Windows (of course you don’t need a driver for USB plugin and play keyboards) but with this cool utility it makes use of the functional key as what it was originally intended on a Mac. The easier way is to download another utility called AppleWirelessKeyboard. However, this method is some what tedious, it require you to dig into which key is which, might cause confusion. You can save the change to registry by pressing “Write to Registry” then make sure you logout or restart your machine for the change to take effect. You need to make the follow mapping, once you are finished. There are two solutions to this problemĭownload this utility called SharpKeys to manually map (swap) the “Windows” key (Apple keyboard is the command key) with “Alt” key (Apple keyboard is the “alt option” key) This problem not only broken the “Alt + Tab” keyboard shortcut pattern, it also breaks all the Windows key + (everything else) keyboard shortcut. Hence, if you rely heavily on “Alt + Tab” to switch applications you will find now you are pressing the “Windows” key + Tab which will launch this animated 3D application switch.

MAP MAC KEYBOARD TO WINDOWS PC

While Windows do recognize the key the position of the “Windows” key have changed to where the original “Alt” key is for a PC keyboard. (because old habits are hard to change) This is primary because of the “alt option” key and the “command” key on the Apple keyboard in Windows acting as “alt” key and the “windows” key.

This become extremely annoying if you are a keyboard shortcut guy. If you happen to use an Apple keyboard primary on a Windows machine you will soon realize some awkward keyboard shortcut pattern. You have to admit Apple keyboard are slick, they are elegantly designed and well polished.

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