How To Install Magic Mouse On Windows 10

Got an quondam Apple Bluetooth mouse laying around? Good news, it works in Windows 10!

I was excavation through boxes in my basement the other day and unearthed a buried treasure: my old Apple Mighty Mouse. My brief stint as a Mac user concluded over five years agone, so my one time-trusty Apple tree-branded Bluetooth mouse had been collecting grit. I was surprised to see that upon switching it on; it blinked to life. I decided to come across if it would work on my Windows x PC. And it did, with a little coaxing.

Hither'south how to get yours working, too.

Installing Apple tree Mighty Mouse or Magic Mouse Drivers in Windows x

If your calculator has Bluetooth, that's one-half the equation. Drivers are the second one-half.

I am using the discontinued Apple Mighty Mouse, model A1197.

Apple tree makes official Windows drivers for their peripherals, including the Mighty Mouse and Magic Mouse. They are bundled up with Boot Camp, which lets you boot Windows on your Mac.

Normally, y'all get these drivers every bit part of the Kick Camp Assistant setup procedure. But if you are no longer a Mac user, you tin can snag them from Apple's back up pages. I plant the driver in the Boot Army camp Support Software five.ane.5769 (August 2015) zippo file.

Go ahead and download this file and unzip it. Inside, to navigate the BootCamp > Drivers > Apple folder. In in that location, y'all'll observe a file called applewirelessmouse64.exe. Run information technology to install your Magic Mouse drivers or Mighty Mouse drivers.

(Note: If you are using an Apple tree Magic Trackpad, try out the AppleWirelessTrackpad64.exe drivers.)

Proceed through the Device Driver Installation Wizard.

Click Finish when y'all're done.

Pairing Mighty Mouse or Magic Mouse in Windows 10

Now that y'all have the drivers, the adjacent stride is to pair the mouse. It had been so long since I used my Mighty Mouse that I had forgotten how to pair it. At that place isn't a pairing button, merely an on/off switch on the bottom that slides over the optical sensor on the bottom.

To become it to pair, go into your Bluetooth settings in Windows 10. Plough off your mouse and click Add together Bluetooth or other device and choose Bluetooth.

When Windows starts looking for the device, switch on your mouse while belongings the left-click button. Proceed property the left-click button till the light-green light on the lesser starts flashing.

Your Apple tree mouse should show up in the list of devices. Click it. If prompted for a passcode, endeavor 0000 or 1111.

One time yous're connected, Windows 10 will finish setting information technology up.

That'south it! You should be up and running.

I've only tried this on my Apple Mighty Mouse. But I believe it should work with any Apple tree wireless mouse. If you attempt it on your Windows x PC, let me know about your success or failure in the comments.

PS A note about the feature image. This was taken by Feureau (Own piece of work) [CC By-SA 3.0 or GFDL] via Wikimedia Eatables. I could've taken a photo of my ain Mighty Mouse, but it's filthy. When I say I dusted information technology off, I mean that figuratively…