Get Apple’s MultiTouch Magic Mouse To Work on Windows
Posted in Random by Dan at 10:15 pm
This post was published 4 months 1 day ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.So you like Apple’s fancy Magic Mouse? Its a beautiful piece of engineering with an insane price tag of $70. Problem is, even at $70, it only works on Macs leaving Windows users in the dust. But thanks to a hidden update here is how you get this little guy to work in Windows XP (32 bit) to Windows 7.
Thanks to a little hackery from Apple’s Bluetooth Update (located here) the Magic Mouses driver was extracted via WinRar resulting in a 32bit version and a 64bit version that you can install on any ordinary Windows PC that will enable all the scrolling ‘magic’ of the Magic Mouse.
Scrolling still doesn’t work for me on my 32-bit XP PC… :-(
I installed the drivers and the mouse still won’t connect. I’m using an IBM laptop on the 32 bit version of XP. Any suggestions? (don’t say buy a mac. this is my work PC and i don’t have a choice)
For those who can get Windows to discover the mouse, but then it just won’t connect, in the “add a driver” window, right click on the mouse, then put a check mark in the box next to the comment that mentions HID. I can’t remember exactly what tab it’s under, or what the actual comment is, but it will be easy enough to determine. After the check mark is there, presto bingo, Windows will add your mouse.
Thanks Kelly. Perfect! Works like a champ.
I installed the drivers on windows xp 32bit version and my computer won’t discover the mouse at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I downloaded and installed the drivers and tried to pairing again. The mouse still will not pair with the laptop. I have the apple wireless keyboard working just fine, but the mouse will not pair.
Any suggestions?
I had exactly the same. The standard microsoft windows Bluetooth stack does not recognize the mouse. I installed then the toshiba stack. It works but the keyboard became unstable. Now I’m working with the bluesoleil stack.
It seems to work fine. However the driver to have the scrolling does not work on my XP PC.
I went into the hardware properties screen and looked a the mouse drivers listed. The HID compatibility was enabled. The mouse will still not connect. Maybe it’s just something to do with the IBM laptop and the Apple Magic Mouse.
ok for my issue of not pairing. I had to go to the control panel, click on the mouse, go to the bluetooth tab, then select connect. It went through the discovery process again and this time it found it. It asked for an authentication number and i put in 0000, a defacto standard for pairing. It saw the mouse, paired it, and now it will work for basic functions. It is basic functions only though. No scrolling, or paging or anything. I did a reinstall of the 32 bit driver but there was no difference. Is there a way to take the driver file out of the .exe? With that you can manually select the driver to be used for the mouse. That would be helpful.
thanks, 0000 key works!!
thanks
Hello Guys:
I am running XP with bootcamp on an iMac. I have the magic mouse recognized and work before. I dowmload and run the 32 bit version driver. Right after I installed it, I can use the magic mouse to scroll up and down in a Web page. So, this driver
did work for me !!
Worked flawless on an Alienware M17x running window 7 64bit. Installed the driver, paired the new magic mouse and all functions available including scrolling. This mouse rocks!!!
Dude… I having trouble with the mouse… I mean… the clicking works but not the scrolling… Could it be the Bluetooth Adapter I bought?
Hi Dino,
I’m using a PC with Windows 7 64 Bit (no MAC, no Bootcamp) – and the magic mouse touch. Scrolling is not possible – only Left- and Rightclick…
It would be great if you could help me…
Juergen
Hi, I’m running Windows 7 Ultimate on my macbook. When I installed windows I used the Snow Leopard DVD to automatically install the windows driver and everithing worked fine. Now I have a magic mouse and without install anything I paired it with windows: obviously the multi-touch feautres doesn’t work . I tryied to follow your instructions but in first I cannot install the Apple Bluetooth update because the message “This update is not made for your system” is shown, in second, I cannot use the 32bit driver for the multitouch because the system tell me that the archive is corrupt.
Can you help me??
Thank you for extracting the driver.
Great job.
The magic mouse has no problem connecting to my Dell Latitude D830 running Vista 32 bits
Scrolling was not working though.
Installed the driver downloaded from the above link.
Remove the Bluetooth connection from the PC and re-discover the Apple Magic mouse.
Scrolling works now.
How? Scroll is not working.
it does not working on PC!
Works perfectly on my unibody MBP C2D 2.93GHz running Vista 32bit uncer bootcamp!!! Thanks a million!!!
What? $70 for a mouse? I think I’ll pass. But nice tip by the way
I just purchased a Colorware’d Magic Mouse (to match my Window’s Laptop). I am running Windows Ultimate and installed the 64bit driver. I found the mouse and an able to a) use the mouse, b) touch scroll — no other functions like zoom or swipe left or right.
My issue is I keep losing connection with the laptop and have to lift up the mouse, look for the light and keep clicking until it reconnects.
Has anyone had this issue? If so I would appreciate help.
And thanks to the creator of the drivers! :)
after installing this driver on a toshiba tecra with vista 32 bit the mouse still does not have scroll or 2 fingers touch. It is the same as without this driver. Without it did connect and move the arrow.
My magic mouse worked perfectly on my Dell D630. Actually, the basic mouse functions worked without the drivers, but scrolling wasn’t working. Installed the 32-bit drivers linked above, and scrolling works great!
I just wish gestures were enabled.
How can I view the battery status of magic mouse in windows?
Bluesoleil 6.4.249 + Magic Mouse + Win7(32) = partially functional, expensive mouse. Scrolling/swiping does not work, although the mouse does connect. I’ve installed the Microsoft X8 driver and the Apple bluetooth update and the Magic Mouse driver and tinkered for 3 hours to no avail. Running a PC, so Boot Camp is out.
That was the trick!! i was getting that problem that avoided me to connect my magic mouse to windows 7 in a boot camp partition. Well as JavaKing said, I tried to detect my mouse when i saw the mouse being detected i right click on it saw a window and chech that this new discovered device is a mouse, keyboard HID and then click ok. Ass soon windows started installing the drivers for it ( i previously had the new bootcamp drivers installed, you can get thos from the download area of the apple website the new version 3.1 i think contains the neww driver that will allow you to use the scrolling only with the magic mouse). And Voila!
I am sill facing the problem mentioned by Steffi, I am running a win XP 32 bit Dell Latitude D530 at work and cannot get the momentum scrolling to work, the mouse connects and right clicks and left clicks but not the scroll :(
Tried doing all that was mentioned in the above posts and other posts in the internet but none of them address the win xp problem sadly.
Would really appreciate any help on this.
Thanks! Installed the driver (Windows XP Pro SP3), paired with Bluetooth (key 0000) and it recognised the mouse within seconds. Scrolling works perfectly too.
I have installed 32bit version on HP Pavilion laptop with Windows XP SP2, but they are not working. I’d appreciate some help.
Ta
Its not working …
- installed the driver
- enabled HDI
- connected (0000)
I can see the mouse in my bluetooth window and it says connected … doesent work though
kinda frustrating :\
I have a dell studio laptop
Ok to get this working on Windows 7 64 bit:
pair the mouse with windows first using “add bluetooth device”
install drivers.
voila
@dns80
I think you need to pair it with your bluetooth first and then install the driver. When i tried the other way around…it didnt work.
Had the same problems as some of you guys described – could find the mouse but could not connect. I updated bootcamp http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3039 (BootCamp 3.1 is required). My scroll and zoom works!
Doesn’t work for me. I tried the whole procedure on a IBM T60 and the mouse is recognized as a Bluethooth Virtual HID device -> HID Compliant mouse. Even after installing the Sidewinder driver nothing change.
I try forcing the installation of the Apple driver. To do that i:
1. Extract the file from “AppleWirelessMouse.exe”
2. In device manager i right-clicked on the “Bluethooth Virtual HID Device” and then choose Update driver
3. Choose “Install from a specific location”
4. Choose “Don’t search, i will choose the driver to install”
5. Click on “Have Disk” and point to the folder where i extracted the file
After that a warning is shown where it says that my new device may not work. When i confirm that i want to install it anyway, then the “Bluethooth Virtual HID Device” became “Apple Wireless Mouse” but with a yellow mark on it and the mouse doesn’t work anymore.
Any one with the same problem?
Guy, did someone managet how to get it work under Windows XP SP3, because driver are installed, by system using only like HID device, and driver from Apple Wireless Mouse is not used by Windows. Can someone put guide inside how they maked these drivers work???
Worked great, then I installed these drivers and every time the USB bus is accessed by a hard drive, the pointer essentially stops. Completely unusable this way! How do I uninstall the driver completely?
@ MagicMousey,
a) The driver has an entry in the Windows Software List. Uninstall it
b) there is a folder called “DIFX” under c:\programs, also created by the installation
c) under c:\windows\system32, the folder “DRVSTORE” can be deleted as well.
AFAIK, the driver installation program does not leave entries the Windows registry itself, at least I didn’t find anything related after scanning it manually for a couple of times.
yehh. thanks.
32byte
Hi,
I have same problem,
Scrolling does work on windows 7 but doesn’t on xp.
I did not use bootcamp, single windows boot because no OSX installation.
Hi guys,
I am running Windows 7 64bits. I had no problems detecting and connecting the magic mouse but of course with no scroll.
I downloaded the 64bits drivers…and I could connect, but now, the cursor moves are choppy and I can’t really use it as it moves much later than I move the mouse…and sometimes stop…
The bluetooth signal is good so I don’t really understand what is happening…
Can anyone help?
Hi guys…works under Windows 7 64bit on a PC with BT Dongle . Inclusiv scrolling.
I had trouble too. What made it for me:
First Pairing the Mouse then installing driver.
BUT THEN: I had to switch to the Admin account !!!
I installed the mouse under my normal user account…with admin rights…but it always refused…even after reboot etc. Then i switched to admin account and voila it worked….after switching back to normal user account . It even worked there.
Thx for the job !
I have a netbook who works with Windows 7 32-bit and my girlfriend give me a magic mouse. My netbook have bluetooth. Before a magic mouse i works with microsoft mobile memory mouse 8000, who works with wireless or bluetooth.
When I take muy new magic mouse first I turn off the old mouse and add the new one. When the computer found the apple mouse, then automatically surch HID-drivers and found it successfully. The mouse works but the scroll didn`t. Then I found and install the drivers for windows 7 32-bit(I found in this page hier) and the scroll works good.
I use Windows XP SP3 and a Belkin Bluetooth USB.
Apple Keyboard is connected and works fine.
Apple magic mouse driver installed, recognized from the driver install and also from Belkin Bluetooth software – but cannot get connected ! ;-(
What should I do ?? Help…..
YAY!!!! IT WORKS = ) THX
addition to my previous comment :
well i stopped using the magic mouse, cause it doesnt reconnect after sleep modus on my windows 7 64bit, i use the dfault blutooth driver of windows….
sad but true
I saved the 64bit version and tried to open and install but got corrupt error, when choosing Run rather than Save As, it worked fine.
I can confirm 32 and 64 work both, thanks alot!
@ Tony , you should deinstall the belkin bluetooth software. Then pair it with microsoft standard bt software and then install driver
negative. i tried it today. the driver installer runs fine, but nada afterwards.
I was wondering, if you’re not going to use your mouse, could I buy it off of you? My brother really wants one and doesn’t care it its used. Thanks!
Ergonomic is not synonimous to “round” and soft. It means that it does not put strain on muscles or other bodyparts where that is not necessary or harmfull. The flat mouse makes it possible to lay your hand flat on the table (and therefore you don’t have to use any muscles in your arm to hold up or move that arm) and move the mouse with your fingers. The “sharp” edges give feedback to your fingers so you know how you are holding your mouse and make it possible to adjust your grip without looking at the mouse. Black print on white background is easy to read because of the large contrast, this mouse is as it where easy to “read ” with your fingers because of the well defined edges. Whereas the so called ergonomic mouses with their round shapes are grey print on grey paper.
You have to change the way you mouse and than after a week other mouses feel clunky or bulky and unresponsive compared to this one. I only wish it came with a wire because the batteries make it a tiny bit on the heavy side. Not as heavy as other bt mouses I tried, but still.
now it works fine. Thanks
@adventcavalier: seeing that your comment is a week old now – any news concerning getting it to work? I can’t just work with a mouse that doesn’t have a function for scrolling. :-(