{"id":6231,"date":"2014-12-14T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T22:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fluentbytes.com\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2014-12-14T22:54:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T22:54:19","slug":"tweaks-after-setting-up-a-mac-book-pro-with-boot-camp-as-a-windows-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fluentbytes.com\/?p=6231","title":{"rendered":"Tweaks after setting up a Mac Book Pro with boot camp as a Windows machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a couple of weeks I have a Mac Book Pro as my main workstation. For my work I need to spend quite some time in Windows and only for my cross platform mobile app development with Xamarin I need the Mac Book, so I can develop iOS applications. The past weeks I have been using Parallels virtualization, but when you use it for Windows phone development, you need to enable nested virtualization and then unfortunately the machine has strange lags and is sometimes extremely slow. <\/p>\n

One thing I wanted to try out today was to setup Parallels in a different way, using a boot camp partition. Here you install windows on your bare metal using the Apple provided boot camp options. <\/p>\n

I must say, installing with boot camp was overall a smooth install, no strange issues I needed to solve. Just a couple of tweaks that I summarize below: <\/p>\n

Change the scroll direction on the boot camp windows machine<\/h2>\n

Only a few things I got used to the past weeks on the Mac Book I really love where the way the track pad works. One thing is natural scrolling, which I got used to in such a way that I could not work with the reverse scroll anymore on windows. <\/p>\n

To fix the scroll directions, there is a simple registry key you can set. <\/p>\n

Here is the Power Shell command you can use (in admin mode!) <\/p>\n

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Enum\\HID\\*\\*\\Device` Parameters FlipFlopWheel -EA 0 | ForEach-Object { Set-ItemProperty $_.PSPath FlipFlopWheel 1 } <\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

After rebooting, your windows will scroll in natural scroll mode, just as on Mac OS <\/p>\n

Slowing down the scroll speed on the boot camp windows machine<\/h2>\n

The track pad now works, but the scroll speed is way to fast, at least for me it is. The way to slow down scrolling on the track pad is by changing the mouse settings in the control panel.   Go to the control panel, type in the search keyword, mouse and then select \u201cchange mouse settings\u201d <\/p>\n

Here you select the tab wheel and set the number of lines to a lower value. for me 1 works best as shown in the screenshot: <\/p>\n

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Enabling Hardware virtualization on your boot camp windows machine<\/h2>\n

This one is in the category don\u2019t ask how it works, but it works. <\/p>\n

If you first boot into your boot camp partition, you can not enable Hyper-V. reason is that the hardware virtualization is disabled and you normally need to enable this in the PC bios. In this case you need to take the following steps: <\/p>\n

restart your machine and use the option key at startup to select the OS-X partition and boot into the Mac OS again. there go to the System preferences and then to the Startup disk option. Then you select your boot camp partition and click reboot. <\/p>\n

Now windows starts again, and if you look at the processor information, you can now see the hardware virtualization is enabled. <\/p>\n

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With this fix I was able to enable Hyper-V, and enable Visual studio to install the phone emulator image and start working on Windows Phone projects again <\/p>\n

Hope this helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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