IMac Bluetooth Keyboard Not Working On Windows 8 :/

Well I've had an iMac for about 2 years already and my keyboard and mouse have been working flawlessly! Oh and I only use Windows 7 on Boot Camp and I've had no problems what so ever UNTIL I upgraded to Windows 8 about a week ago and that's when the problem starts. When I play games on Steam my keys on my keyboard work flawlessly like always but when it comes to typing words say like in the Internet or ANYTHING other then my games it DOESN'T WORK! Please if you have the same problem or know how to fix it please tell me. Thanks in advance! :)

if your signature say win8 does that imply that you used to run win8 and it worked there but not with win8.1
if so then you may have to wait for apple to release official support for win8.1 in terms of new drivers you can likely download from their site as a zip
at least thats what I hope will solve my huge page pool fatal bluescreen crashes in win8.1
which I also suffered from in win8 before the official amd drivers was released

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