Update 11/16/19: After the Windows 10 update yesterday this no longer works. PS - After doing this, I tried to adjust the brightness using Fn + F5 / F6 and it made the keyboard lights go out, but a Restart fixed it.

Windows background / date & time blinks.Īfter that, when I close and then re-open the laptop, the keyboard backlight comes on immediately!.

I see the Windows background (Keyboard backlight is off).

When I do Power, Restart - this is what happens: This worked for me but two caveats: I mostly use my laptop plugged in but if you don't, this will probably drain your battery a little faster than usual, and there was some DELAY when doing a Restart:

Where it says 'Turn off keyboard backlight when computer is not used for' - Choose ' Never'.

Uncheck the box that says 'Adjust Keyboard brightness in low light'.

Go to Task Bar and click Bootcamp icon.

I got this working without driver updates or anything like that! Just for reference, today is 9/21/19 and I'm using Bootcamp on a MacBook Pro, Windows 10 Pro (but my guess is this will work with any Win 8 or 10). I'm usually facing this problem and this way is always good for me. Then try re-launch it and wait until CPU field is 0%. In case it's own CPU field > 0%, a sign is easily found by right click on Bootcamp icon on Taskbar, it will slow down to open popup, you just kill process bootcamp.exe. If you don't see the lights, go to Task Manager, and look up bootcamp.exe.

Sometimes, Windows is updated and maybe make the lights doesn't work. When you log-in, after bootcamp.exe start, you will hear a sound like bing and then the keyboard lights will turn on.

Sometimes after some sleep-wake cycles the dimmer function stops working (Pressing Fn F5-F6 brings up a gray panel with a disabled sign), rebooting fixes the problem. Its not in the option menu on start up, but is still recognised in start up disk and disk utility. Try reinstalling the WindowsSupport files (which reinstalls the keyboard driver), you should not lose T++ functionality, but if you do just reinstall it (Power Plan Assist reinstallation is not needed) bootcamp macos partition windows I had an issue in OSX which meant that I had to erase the OSX partition, and after reinstalling OSX, my bootcamp partition wont load. (and Fn F5 and Fn F6 control the intensity) Keyboard lights work perfectly in both W7 and W8.

Reinstalling windows on bootcamp