Brightness Control in boot camp

I am new to the mac world and have just purchased a macbook pro 17 and conected it closed to a 27 inch thunderbolt display. Using my cad programe in bootcamp i cannot adjust the brightness on the display and as a result i am getting sore eyes and headaches after prelonged use. Is there anyway I can do adjust the brightness on the display. i have a mac key board and tried ctl f1 f2 but this doesnt work.

I have the same problem. My MacBook Pro's brightness damages my eyes too when using Bootcamp.
However I do not have any brightness option in my Bootcamp control panel. Bootcamp version is 3.3.
How can I fix this problem ?

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HT3986 I have installed windows 7 into my macbook pro 15 inch with lions. This computer is the current 2.2 GH i7 chip with 500 GB HD. Now, how do I install the drivers. When I started boot camp, the system prompted me to create a CD. What do I do with

I have installed Windows 7 into my Macbook Pro 15 inch with Lions as operating system. (current model with 2.2 GHz i7 processor, 500 GB HD ad 5400 rpm). When I started with boot camp, the system promped me to create a disc, which I presume is for the drivers for windows 7. Now windows is intalled. What do I do with the CD that the system created for me? Also, why does the system automatically start in Win7 instead of Lion. I need to pression the option key to have it start in OS X. I thought it was supposed to be the opposite.

Insert it while you are in Windows, if it does not autostart run setup.exe.
Choose your startup disk using Apple>System Preferences>Startup Disk (in OSX) or Control Panel>Boot Camp>Startup Disk (in Windows)

Boot camp, trackpad problem with windows 8.1

Hello everyone,
I started to use windows 8.1 on my mac pro (13-inch, retina, late 2013)
The problem is that none of the trackpad gestures are working.
My keyboard lighting also does not work. My all drivers are installed and up to date.
How can I fix this problem?

There are two things to check.
1. Control Panel -> Boot Camp -> Trackpad tab. Here is an example.
2. You have two different drivers.
Device Manager > Human Interface Devices > Apple Multitouch version 5.0.2.0
- It says Up to date and I've reinstalled the device to fix the problem, it did not work
Device Manager > Human Interface Devices > Apple Multitouch Mouse version 4.0.3.0
- It says Up to date and I've reinstalled the device to fix the problem, it did not work
Do you have both, a Trackpad and a Magic/Mighty Mouse paired to the same Mac?
On a 13" 2012 MBP with W8.1 this is what I have installed. Your list should be similar.

Windows 7 in boot camp - two finger click and drag issues

Hey everyone. I have Windows 7 on Boot Camp (MacBook Pro mid-2010, Mac OS X Lion) and I cannot seem to click on a window with one finger, then use a second finger to drag it. Every time I try it brings up the right click menu. Is there any way of fixing this? I want to be able to drag, darn it! Thanks.
Grant

Having had the same issue on my MacBook Pro with Boot Camp 5.0.5033 on Windows 8, workaround being external mouse, I have found the following:
If Trackpad->Two Fingers->Secondary Click is enabled in Control Panel/Boot Camp, in order to Click and Drag one cannot click any place on the trackpad. One must click bottom area of the trackpad with one finger, and then use another finger to drag.
If Trackpad->Two Fingers->Secondary Click is disabled, Click and Drag works the same way as in Mac OS X: one can click any place on MacBook Pro built-in trackpad with one finger, and then use another finger to drag the window or select a fragment of text. The two fingers Secondary Click, consequently, becomes disabled.
For me Mac OS X-style Click&Drag is more important, so I disabled two fingers Secondary Click, and assigned Bottom-Right-Corner of the trackpad to be Right-Click instead.
Don’t know if the question is still open… Hope, however, the info might be helpful to those having the same inconvenience with Click and Drag under Boot Camp.
HTH

Windows 7 Build 7100 (release candidate): Boot Camp drivers not compatible?

I had a go at installing Windows 7 Build 7100 on my MacBook (aluminium) via Boot Camp. Windows 7 installed fine, but the Boot Camp drivers of the chipset and DVD drive don't seem to work.
I'll have a look at Intel's website for the chipset driver, but what's really annoying me is that I can't eject my optical discs.
Anyone else tried 7100 yet? I had none of the above problems in build 7000.

Tried 7077. A word or two of caution, these (Apple Boot Camp) is known to cause problems and was blocked.
Programs and drivers/installers that worked previously aren't, but that is the purpose of an RC.
Also, Apple iTunes has used GEAR drivers which have also disabled optical drives in the past and may do so again.
*What you will see when a program is incompatible:*
this has been formalized with an appearance by the familiar Program Compatibility Assistant window shown here.
http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/04/25/security-softwar e-changes-in-windows-7-rc.aspx
Everything works well except Apple TimeServices when you change OS; OSSwitcher (control panel "Boot Camp" to change the default boot OS). Otherwise 7077 has run smooth, fewer problems than Vista (including SP1 and SP2(RC), and definitely much much better than build 7000.

Boot camp and partitions

Hello all,
I am a bit new with boot camp and I am not sure about the size of patition.
What do you suggest me for OS X and Windows partition size?
Thank for advices

ok, thanks for your advice.
I would like to ask you something else. I just inmstall my first boot camp with Windiws 7 and it works fine. I also install boot cam driver, and all seams to be fine.
I also discover that when I reboot from Seven, it start Seven. And when form Windows Seven I got to Control Panel -> Boot camp and I restart on OS X.
And from OS X I restart my laptop, it starts OS X.
So If I retart my system, it will restat to the OS it has been restart from.
My question, when I Start my workstation, how can I do that from one piont it let me choose to which OS I want to start. (Excepted from olding the "option bottom"?

Brightness control at startup with systemd

I finally upgraded to systemd (I know... a bit later than I should have), and the transistion has been smooth, except for enabling brightness controll at boot.
I currently have a bit of a hack working to enable brightness control on my Dell XPS 13 ultrabook. I have two backlight interfaces (/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight and /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0), and I have found that the only way to alter my screen brightness is to set the intel_backlight brightness value to 0 and then alter the brightness file under the acpi_video0 interface. I must always write the 0 to the intel_backlight/brightness file, even if it already contains 0, to enable brightness control through acpi_video0.
I had had this code in my rc.local previously, and it worked exactly as I needed to enable brightness control:
#!/bin/bash
# set intel interface to 0, allowing acpi interface to take precedence
echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
# set the permissions of the acpi brightness file for video group (me) regular user modification
chgrp video /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
chmod 664 /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
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echo 3 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
exit 0
Currently when I run this script normally it grants me the brightness control I desire through the modification of /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness. I have made this script into a systemd service initiated at startup, with the service file below:
[Unit]
Description=Brightness Control Initialization
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/scripts/bright_init
RemainAfterExit=yes
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
My issue is that although the service is initiated at startup without error, my brightness control does not function like it does when I run the script manually myself. I have verified that systemd considers the service to have run successfully after startup, and I have also enabled both the multi-user.target and above service.
My questions are twofold:
1. Is there a better way to allow brightness control other than the somewhat hacky method of zeroing the /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness file with the above script?
2. And does anyone have an idea as to why my service doesn't work, even though I can run the script after startup and it functions as I desire?
Last edited by tyler.heck (2012-11-16 01:45:46)

It is interesting to see that this is working for you. I had to add OWNER="root" to the rule. Otherwise when testing the rule with `udevadm test` I always recieved a permission denied error. But even with OWNER="root" Udev did not actually write the ATTR{brightness}="2" into the file.
Manually doing that by echo 2 > ... works well. I searched a bit on this topic and found a thread on the Gentoo forum where they say that it is not wise to use Udev for writing anything to /sys. Instead you should use Udev to run a script that does that:
[orschiro@thinkpad ~]$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/50-powersave.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", ENV{POWER_SUPPLY_ONLINE}=="0", RUN+="/home/orschiro/Scripts/powersaving battery"
SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", ENV{POWER_SUPPLY_ONLINE}=="1", RUN+="/home/orschiro/Scripts/powersaving AC"
[orschiro@thinkpad ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/powersaving
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
battery)
echo "Running powersaving on AC in 3 seconds"
sleep 3
# screen power saving"
echo 200000 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
AC)
echo "Running powersaving on battery in 3 seconds"
sleep 3
# screen power saving
echo 4270725 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
esac
Last edited by orschiro (2013-03-01 15:29:02)

Boot camp re-install error 2753

Hi everyone!
I just solved a big problem with my boot camp i spend 7 hours...
MAC BOOK PRO
WINDOWS 7
BOOT CAMP 3.2
After deleting boot camp 3.2 i tried to install new boot camp 3.3 but it doesnt work.
The most interesting - boot camp 3.2, 3.1, 3.0 doesnt setup too. - Error 2753.
I go to the internet to find answer. A few peoples wrote to download and install BootCamp 2.0.1, and after it 3... I found only version for xp and vista. No for win7.
After 7 hour i found a solution. Error 2753 happens because of file c:/windows/system32/AppleOSSMgr.exe. I just deleted it and try to setup again. And it works!
For all who receive error 2753 when setup bootcamp! Just try to delete file c:/windows/system32/AppleOSSMgr.exe
IT SIMPLY WORKS!
If it does not work for you - look up Windows Installer LOGS to see in what moment happens error.

There were some foolish suggestions, the part of going back to 2.0. typo?
Did you mean "delete" or proper method, uninstall?
Apple made it messy, getting better now, but you needed 3.0, and then upgrade to get 3.3.
Apple OS Switcher part of Apple Services msconfig and found in control panel Boot Camp is "handy" but not 100% essential (I ran Mac w/ Windows only and never needed to change default / could be done from Mac side Startup Disk and write the variable to NVRAM).
Going back to 3.0 is all. And when Lion and BC 4.0 came out and were buggy, people needed to uninstall BC 4.0, then go back to SL DVD BC 3.0.
Editorial: (skip if you are so inclinded):
What Apple should have and has transitioned to is to download the newest full package.
That was suppose to be part of Boot Camp Assistant, and intro'd in 10.6.6, but it rarely (10% success?) worked (more field testing, us) and got better with 10.6.8.
Of course with LION this became the only method to get a set of Windows drivers, BCA and wait and download and store locally.
MS Installer Cleanup Utility use to be helpful for such chores.
Turning off services is still possible along wth Startupitems.
Had you asked here, can't recall, but Windows 7 came out after 10.6, Apple though didn't rewrite BC 3.0, they just said, and confused people, with "you need Boot Camp 3.1" and of course in some cases 3.0 was so bad people could not reboot into Windows and HFS read-only was also 'hazardous.'
Sometimes seems like a) $30 for Lion just for drivers, and b) Intel and every motherboard manuf has to provide drivers for their products to add chipset support. And it is not this bad or require old out of date buggy drivers in order to install the correct ones you need.
End Editorial / Back to OP and discussion:
I don't recall in 5 yrs ever once seeing that error code mentioned and posted here. Kind of thing that sticks and I'd remember, and bookmark as well as search on MS and Bing.

How do you boot from a Windows CD (Ghost in this case) in Boot Camp ?

I installed Bootcamp about a year ago. I used Norton's Ghost to make a disk image of my C: drive in Bootcamp for a backup. My machine is now misbehaving and I want to reinstall my orginal image from Ghost. However, I cannot figure out how to boot from the Ghost CD to begin the process. If I tap f8 or f2 or delete key nothing happens to bring me to that BIOS screen where I can choose which device I want to boot from at start up. Any ideas? Thanks

Hello deacm,
Supposedly you can insert your CD in the drive and, upon restart, (immediately after the chime) hold down the "C" key until the screen shows "Press any key to boot from CD". For some reason, this does not work for me.
If the above step didn't work for you, you can try the following steps that works for me:
1) If you can boot into Windows, insert the CD (close any windows that pop up), go to the Control Panel>Boot Camp and select the CD as the startup drive, then restart. The screen will briefly display "Press any key to boot from CD" (for only a moment) so press any key immediately.
2) If you can't boot into Windows, in Apple's System Preference, select "Startup Disk" and then click on the Windows partition. Close System Preference, insert the CD and (after a couple of minutes when the CD is recognized) restart. Immediately after the chime, hold down the "Option/Alt" key. Select the CD and press "Return". Moments later, the screen should display "Press any key to boot from CD", then press any key.
Good luck,
Gary
Message was edited by: Gary Kawamura

Boot Camp Utility Missing From Windows 7

Hi all,
I'm running an 8-core Mac Pro blah blah blah with 3x1t hard drives. I've used the Boot Camp utility to make one of those 1t hard drives into windows 7. This worked perfectly, in fact I'm currently typing from Windows 7. However...
When I've done this previously there was always a Boot Camp utility within Windows 7 (in the bottom right of my task bar) which allowed me to switch back from Windows 7 to Mac, and vise versa... This time the Boot Camp utility within Windows 7 which allows me to go back to Mac has disappeared ... I'm stuck in Windows 7!
Any idea why this might be? And how I can might download Boot Camp or something to rectify this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Matt

Your OS X 10.6 DVD has the 3.0.4 drivers and you would then need to update 3x to get to 3.3
So do you or did you get to 3.2 at least? 3.0 and 3.1 were buggy.
Mounting and accessing HFS drive volumes was also causing BSODs; and does not work when there are Apple array volumes.
There is also and better place to look is control panels: Boot Camp with its own startup disk section
'x' on startup = Mac OS
Check Services and startup items. You should have
OSSwitcher
Apple TimeServices (without which time will be off every time you switch OS)
Programs control panel: Boot Camp there? try Repair.
Lion allows downloading Boot Camp 4.x driver from Boot Camp Assistant to put on USB device or elsewhere that you access in Windows.
www.apple.com/support/bootcamp guide faq how to articles etc
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I installed windows vista on my mac through boot camp but now cant return to my os settings before. Please help!!

I've looked on the web but they all say swapping between windows and is using bootcamp but I am not being given this option as every time I restart it it just launches in windows again?

You read the install guide and FAQ?
Did you check the Windows on Mac Boot Camp forum?
www.apple.com/support/bootcamp has how to etc
You installed the Apple Windows Support Software
You have looked in Windows Control Panels : Boot Camp : Change default startup
There is also Startup Disk in System Preferences in OS X
x = Mac OS X
Option key invokes Mac boot OS selector on startup
MacBook Pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
Mac 101: Using Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1461
Helpful Apple Support Resources (Forum Overview)
Boot Camp Support
Boot Camp Manuals
Boot Camp 4.0, OS X Lion: Frequently asked question http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4818 http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdf
create a Windows support software (drivers) CD or USB storage media
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4407
The Boot Camp Assistant can burn Boot Camp software (drivers) to a DVD or copy it to a USB storage device, such as a flash drive or hard drive. These are the only media you can use to install Boot Camp software.
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4569
Installation Guide
Instructions for all features and settings.
Boot Camp 4.0 FAQ Get answers to commonly asked Boot Camp questions.
Windows 7 FAQ Answers to commonly asked Windows 7 questions.

Brightness control not working in Windows 8 x64 after sleep with Boot Camp 5.0.2

Hi,
I am using Boot Camp 5.0.2 with Windows 8 x64.
Wheen the computer has been in sleep mode, and wakes up again, the brightness control won't work as expected.
Usually the screen is to dark (darker than before, what it should be), and after some time pops up brighter as it should be.
Has onyone else seen this issue?
I mean, it seems that for brightness we use the internal control GUI of Windows 8, and not the Apple one that is used in Windows 7 and in Windows 8 for the sound control.
Macbook Pro 13" Retina, early 2013 (brand new) with 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD and 3.0GHz i7.

I have been having the issue of no brighness control when running windows through bootcamp for about 6 months now and have not found any applicable solution online.
While messing around trying to figure it out yet again I noticed that my monitor driver was signed by team viewer...
Sure enough clicking the roll driver back button resolved the issue by rolling the driver back to the Microsoft driver...
So long story short:
Right click "My Computer" click properties
Click device manager (lop left of window)
Expand Monitors section
Double Click monitor
Click driver tab
If the driver here is not signed by Microsot or Apple click the roll back button. My driver version is 6.1.7600.16385 (Driver date 6/21/2006)
Rolling this back instantly resolved my issue. I will now propagate this post to all the threads I saw regarding this issue.
I am running windows 7 x64 Ulti on a 15" rMBP.
Best of luck

Boot Camp control panel does not load: Windows XP via VMWare Fusion

whenever i try to access the boot camp control panel--either via the diamond-shaped boot camp icon running in the task bar, or through the windows control panel itself--i get the following error message related to administrative privileges:
"An error occurred while trying to access the startup disk settings. You may not have privileges to change the startup disk. Make sure you have administrator privileges and try again."
is this because i am running windows as a virtual machine within fusion? obviously i'm not interested in the control panel for its startup options, but rather for its other adjustments such as brightness, trackpad, etc.
i am logged in as administrator--that is the only account i have--and i am running boot camp 2.1 on windows xp sp3.
boring possibly-related background info:
- i installed sp3 before ever putting boot camp on my windows virtual machine. i started, of course, with boot camp 2.0 via the OEM leopard install disk, but even after that installed successfully, i could not access the boot camp control panel. so i plowed forward and installed the 2.1 update, but to no avail.
- i even un-installed sp3 and rolled back to sp2, then removed all traces of boot camp, then re-installed starting from 2.0, but to no avail.
google reveals that a few others have gotten this error message, but i've seen no definitive answer for any of them.

Check your XP Task Manager to see if the processes are running or not. I found that I had issues with my Boot Camp Control Panel if I let it auto-launch. It would hang and not start properly most of the time (but it would sometimes). I removed the process from the auto-start list and put an icon on my desktop to manually start it, and it works right every time now. As for the special keys, etc many of those only work right once the control panel app running.

Why don't I have Boot Camp Control Panel?

I am currently asking this in Yahoo! Answers as well:
I just used Boot Camp Assistant around a week ago to install Windows 7 Ultimate on my Macbook Pro with Retina Display (and if it also helps find a solution: I'm also using Mountain Lion). At first, certain keyboard functions that can be used in the Mac OS (such as brightness and volume adjustment; oh, + the trackpad functions) that couldn't be used in Windows didn't exactly bother me since I was able to manage without them... until I started to play online games - which is the main reason I had to dual boot my macbook. When I already found it annoying to continuously click control+left click to perform right click, I started to look for solutions, and I noticed that most people online have said, "Oh, simply adjust your settings in the BOOT CAMP CONTROL PANEL. There should be this DIAMOND in your task bar; click on it so that you can apply changes you want. It should be there after you have installed Windows..." ... Well, thing is: in my case, it DOESN'T APPEAR! "Check your control panel," they say. "You will surely find it there." Check for me, if you will, because I seriously have no clue why I can't find it, even after checking using the Search bar...
Now... why don't I have Boot Camp Control Panel? I find it really strange how it doesn't appear in mine when it does in most of other people's... I kinda dislike the idea of reinstalling Windows, because over the week, I've downloaded several drivers and other applications (mostly games). Is there any way I could get it without having to undergo the process of deleting and uninstalling files? I need my Mac OS for school and office work (don't ask) and I need to have my entertaining pastimes using Windows. Please don't hesitate to suggest as many ideas as you can...
Thank you!

It appears from your description that you did not download and install the Windows support software. It was one of the first menu items you saw when you started Boot Camp Assistant.
Run Boot Camp Assistant again and select the menu option to download the Windows support software. Save this download as described then install it from within Windows.

Brightness control keys stop working after booting MacOSX

I bought a new iMac 27" a couple of weeks ago, and I installed Windows 7 using bootcamp.
All the control keys (brightness, volume, etc) works ok on Windows until I reboot it in MacOSX. When i start windows again, brightness controls keys stops working, leaving the screen with the maximus bright, which is killing my eyes.
Reparing boot camp drivers doesn't do the trick. Am I missing something?

Try fn + the controls. It might be that Windows defaulted to those buttons as F1, F2, etc. Using fn while pressing the buttons will 'tell' Windows that it has to listen to the Bootcamp software and lower the brightness.

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