Macbook pro c2d help!

hi iv had my mbp for 6 week now simply perfect! a few problems thou when i go on system prefeences then speech and where it says internal micophone i click on the button on the side to change the setting and it becomes non responsive and i have to force quit the system preferences this is annoying as i would like to try out the speech opening and closing progam with my voice. 1 other thing is that on bootcamp the keyboard isnt illuminated but i do wnat it to be is this normal or does it need driver or anything. thanks for any help

The keyboard won't yet illuminate under Windows using Boot Camp, as the driver doesn't support that feature yet.
No idea if it will be eventually supported, though I certainly hope so.

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