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#HOW TO SET PRINT SCREEN ON APPLE KEYBOARD HOW TO#
#HOW TO SET PRINT SCREEN ON APPLE KEYBOARD INSTALL#
#HOW TO SET PRINT SCREEN ON APPLE KEYBOARD UPGRADE#
#HOW TO SET PRINT SCREEN ON APPLE KEYBOARD FOR WINDOWS 10#
#HOW TO SET PRINT SCREEN ON APPLE KEYBOARD PC#

Part 1: 7 Ways to Print Screen on Mac in Various Situations.

If you want to take chances of what is shown on the screen, you can follow our guide. We will share a complete guide to help you learn these methods in detail. However, many people found it is complicated to use the print screen on Mac properly, partly because Apple introduced multiple ways to achieve it. In fact, the print screen feature is much more advanced than Windows. If this is something that blocks you, second consider before apply any registry changes.There is no print screen button on MacBook and other Apple’s computers. Last note, if any of other applications you are using has F7-F10 shortcuts, those shortcut will no longer work.

#HOW TO SET PRINT SCREEN ON APPLE KEYBOARD UPGRADE#

So that’s why it’s a good idea to save those settings and export the registry key until next time when your Windows 10 upgrade itself.

#HOW TO SET PRINT SCREEN ON APPLE KEYBOARD PC#

The only catch I found so far after years of using Apple Keyboard on a PC is that every time Windows 10 Upgrades to a new preview build, I lost all the settings. That’s it, now you can enjoy your Apple Keyboard on Windows. Make sure you only save the selected branch, or else the entire registry key will be huge and unnecessary. Right click on the node “ Keyboard Layout” > Export to save the settings as. To do this, go to registry editor and navigate to the path below.Ĭomputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout If you are happy with all the changes, it’s a good idea to save the registry change so next time after Windows upgrade you can go back and apply the same settings again. I’ve also mapped F14 (suppose to be F13, on most boards) to be the Windows’s Print Screen key. You can repeat the same for other media functions. In the example above, I’ve mapped F8 on the Apple Keyboard to be what it was designed for Play or Pause media (music or any current playing). The actual mapping is pretty straight forward, you find the keys that suppose to have this function and link it to the actual functions.

There is a list of existing keys to choose from, but if you aren’t sure which key is belong to which from the list you can click “Type Key” to find the exact match.

#HOW TO SET PRINT SCREEN ON APPLE KEYBOARD HOW TO#

But if you would like to map additional keys that aren’t listed below this is how to do it. Otherwise, you can apply the registry tweak motioned above, no other 3rd party tools necessary.īelow are my SharpKeys’ configuration, you can follow the same mapping to enable all the keys mentioned above.

#HOW TO SET PRINT SCREEN ON APPLE KEYBOARD INSTALL#

Download and Install SharpKeys only if you would like to try your own mapping. Let’s follow along for those of you who are interested in how this works or rather map your own shortcuts to the Apple Keyboard. How To Add Print Screen, Play Pause and Other Keyboard Functions to Apple Keyboard If you just want the basic Windows Start, Control and Alt mapping, you can download and apply this registry tweak instead. I’ve already done this, if you have an Apple Keyboard and wish to use it on Windows along with those functions to work you can download this registry tweak. To achieve this we will use the same program, SharpKeys to generate a set of Windows Registry to apply to the keyboard mapping. We are going to add keyboard function such as media control, including Play/Pause, Previous Track, Next Track, Mute, Volume Up, Volume Down and Print Screen to the Apple Keyboard when used in a Windows environment. They have different in function but not necessary different “physical keys”, this means we can map those keys to it’s intended or untended functions. All the keys in blue are different, most notability Apple’s function keys, media control shortcuts and some of the pc specific keys like Print Screen (PrtSc/PrtScn) are different. As you can see from the picture highlighted below. However, there are more than just those three keys different. Those are the essential mapping you need to modify to get the same PC keyboard layouts. What we covered is basic Windows Key, Control and Alt key mapping.

#HOW TO SET PRINT SCREEN ON APPLE KEYBOARD FOR WINDOWS 10#

This method is still valid, and works for Windows 10 as well as most other versions of Windows. We’ve covered a few methods to map Apple Keyboard on Windows 7. You can have a fully function Apple Keyboard parried with Windows. This is expected, but we are here to fix this. Because Apple Keyboard has a different key layout than PC keyboard, some functions will not work out of the box. However, little you might not know, you can use those keyboard on Windows. Apple recently announced a new set of Magic Keyboard, Mouse and Trackpad for its Mac lineup.