Comments on: Apple’s Magic Mouse is Cool, but not for Windows

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:50:22 +0000

I have VMware Fusion at work and Parallels 5 at home. The Magic Mouse (and Multi-touch trackpad) side-scrolling are recognized in the Parallels Window’s environments but not in Fusion – this is irritating because I am on the computer at work a lot more than at home.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:05:53 +0000

Try bettertouchtool. You can pass gestures through as keyboard shortcuts.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:48:13 +0000

How do I get the magic mouse to work with a Toshiba with vista?
the mouse connects, works but without scroll. All the drivers I have found so far are only for mac platform and the 2 exe files are not solving the problem either.

By: Flaviano

Flaviano — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:33:36 +0000

Greg,

I have Snow Leopard and an XP Professional OS via VMWare Fusion 3.0.1. Everything works fine but the icons on the desktop of the Windows machine. They do respond at all or they do after 1 minute! And at the same time the consumption of memory grows. I tried to to look for any update but didn’t find anything. Did you experience similar problems? Thanks in advance.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:45:32 +0000

This mouse is lovely i’m almost fallin in love with it Lol.. It works pretty well with WINDOWS 7 via Vmfusion but if i switch completely to windows, it doesn’t do a thing, i cant even log in. So i have to connect my old mouse. I’m sure its a driver thing but untill i they release a driver for windows, i’m returning!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:55:18 +0000

Where do you get the AppleBluetoothEnablerInstaller, AppleBluetoothInstaller, AppleMultiTouchTrackPadInstaller, and AppleWirelessMouse Drivers? After extensive searching I couldn’t find it.

By: Olin

Olin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:30:31 +0000

Hi guys,
magic mouse is working in Windows 7(32,64 bit) for Apple computers and also non Apple computers. For Apple computers you must install Boot Camp from 10.6.1 disc and manually use in Device Manager Apple Wirelles mouse driver.
For non Apple computers, you must install 4 drivers below:
AppleBluetoothEnablerInstaller,AppleBluetoothInstaller,AppleMultiTouchTrackPadInstaller,AppleWirelessMouse. Once will be installed these drivers, open the Device Manager, find Bluetooth device and use manually Apple Built-in Bluetooth driver. Restart computer and provide pairing with Magic mouse. Once will be mouse paired, everything will work correctly(horizontal,vertical..).
Good luck

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:49:49 +0000

The scrolling works fine..go to apple site download latest driver. Open in rar and extract 32 or 64 bit update. If you trying running file under win 7 as is wont work..extracted works fine and adds scrolling functionality, only cant swipe from side to side to move from page to page.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:40:45 +0000

Yup, know what you mean. Love the magic mouse on Mac OS, hate it on Windows 7 via Boot Camp. Anyone know if Apple is planning a Boot Camp update for the touch features?

By: GageGecko

GageGecko — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:22:13 +0000

I have been told that the Apple Blue tooth Update for Windows fixes this.

Anyone check this?

By: kirk

kirk — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:53:39 +0000

That’s good to know. Apple’s document suggested that none of the touch things would work.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:38:58 +0000

under VMWare Fusion 3 the vertical scrolling works like a charm. I can say that for sure.

Cheers.

By: Lawrence Velazquez

Lawrence Velazquez — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:57:58 +0000

The Apple tech note seems to be talking only about Windows running under Boot Camp, which makes sense. If Apple hasn’t released Boot Camp drivers to support the Magic Mouse, then all its fancy multitouch won’t work. On the other hand, I’m not sure how mouse interaction is relayed to virtual machines.

By: kirk

kirk — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:49:09 +0000

So you’re saying that vertical scrolling works then?

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:04:49 +0000

I just got the Magic Mouse. Works great in Snow Leopard. I have Win7 installed on VMWare Fusion 3 and while the horizontal scrolling and the back/forward navigation are disabled the primary button, secondary button (Rt click) and the vertical (up&down on the screen) all work just fine.

I don’t know if that’s enough for you but its true. The apple comment above is incorrect. I am hoping to find a driver for the other operations but am sure there is little chance of that.