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Do MacBooks support NVMe SSD drives via the use of a Sintech adapter?
a little update here...
macOS High Sierra beta 9 (and GM) brings us a BootRom update for ALL Macs supported by HighSierra, so that they can boot from APFS drives.
The very, very good news about this ...
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How to download Bootcamp drivers without Bootcamp assistant?
I have written a tool that helps me deploy Boot Camp in an organization where we manage a dual-boot lab environment, and one of its features is that it can download the driver package for arbitrary ...
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Install BootCamp drivers Windows 10
NEW SOLUTION
Open Boot Camp Assistant, and click on "Action" in the menu bar.
Click on Download Windows Support Software.
OLD SOLUTION
You can download the drivers from Boot Camp Assistant.
First,...
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How to Configure extra buttons on mouse
I made Mac Mouse Fix.
It lets you remap your Side Buttons to Windows style Back and Forward (just like Sensible Side Buttons - in fact I copied their code) or to Switching between Spaces. It also ...
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How can I list all the installed printer drivers on Mac OS 10.6?
Since Mac OS 10.2, printing is handled by the CUPS system. While drivers are typically found in /Library/Printers, the folder can contain support files and many other things which are not themselves ...
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How to remove EPSON Projector Audio driver?
Go to /Library/Extensions and delete the "EPSONProjectorAudio.kext" kernel extension. The pesky EPSON Projector Audio driver should be gone after reboot.
(If you can't see the Library folder on your ...
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Direct download of Bootcamp driver 6.1 for windows 10?
just use https://github.com/timsutton/brigadier
found it on discussions apple forum
look for the LonerT's post Aug 25, 2015 7:24 PM in response to dioshy (quoting everything from there even though ...
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How can I uninstall the FTDIUSBSerialDriver?
First, find out if the package is installed, and it's name:
pkgutil --pkgs | grep -i ftdi
It should output:
com.FTDI.driver.FTDIUSBSerialDriver
Then get a list of files:
pkgutil --files com.FTDI....
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How to uninstall Corel Painter Internal Audio Driver in OS X Yosemite
I found a post about uninstallation of this audio driver. There is a kernel extension named PainterAudioDriver.kext in /System/Library/Extensions/ that adds the audio driver to the kernel space. To ...
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Identifying and removing unknown Sound device
I also suffered from this problem after installing a software to use a wireless projector. Though the name is not ESHOW but DongleAudio in my case, I guess this works for you.
In Terminal.app, cd /...
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Where are drivers installed on the Mac
Hardware Drivers in OS X are typically in the form of Kernel Extensions and the primary location is /System/Library/Extensions/ however they can also be within an Application Bundle. You can use ...
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How to correctly remove drivers of external USB wireless network adaptor?
Press and hold Alt/Option and click the wireless icon in the menu bar at the top right of the screen. For instance, I use TP-Link so there is a TP-Link icon. Click it while holding the Option key. You ...
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Bluetooth keyboard not working after update to Windows 10
The new Keyboard driver on Bootcamp broke the connection for my keyboard under Windows 10 and it might break yours too.
So after using the solution from Zidad for the last couple of months (thank you)...
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Does macOS support Ethernet over USB without a 3rd-party driver?
Yes - the vast majority of ethernet adapters work - especially USB-C since they are generally very new, a little more pricey and use fairly standard types of control chips and usb chips.
The Belkin ...
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Drivers not working on Windows 10 installed (CLI process) on external SSD running on MacBook Air 2018
The answer of how to install Windows 10 to a external drive has be answered may times here at Ask Different. Most notably Is it possible to use Boot Camp with Windows 10 from an external HDD?. Enough ...
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Getting Apple Cinema HD Display working in Windows 7 x64
This question is old, but in case anyone is still looking, a driver that works is here:
http://www.holstschumacher.dk/p/brightness-controller.html
Look for the link to Beta Versions and Old ...
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How to Configure extra buttons on mouse
If you just want the side buttons to do back/forward in ANY
app/environment, this app is the most basic, streamlined one I've
found for this purpose on Mac OS X, and completely free (donate!).
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Can I remove BootCamp HFS+ driver
AFAIK the Apple HFS+ drivers are read-only. You may have installed another read/write driver like Paragon.
To remove Apple HFS+ Driver:
Browse to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\
Move AppleHFS.sys & ...
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Do MacBooks support NVMe SSD drives via the use of a Sintech adapter?
The short answer is Yes and No, it depends on the Mac model.
Thanks to @gillesaurejac who made the tests with the Sintech adapter and a lot of Mac models running macOS High Sierra.
His results are:
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Do MacBooks support NVMe SSD drives via the use of a Sintech adapter?
Please note there's an excellent guide on the MacRumors forum by user Cmd+Q which details how to upgrade your SSD step-by-step. Additionally there is an overview of different Apple SSD connectors as ...
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How to Configure extra buttons on mouse
There's also a free app called Karabiner Elements. It can be used for various mappings, including keyboard and mouse.
Get it from: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
I've been using it successfully since ...
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How to correctly remove drivers of external USB wireless network adaptor?
I see from your comments to the posted answer of your other question (How to remove wireless network utility icon from the menu bar?) you have a TL-WN822N V3 and both the Utility package and the ...
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HP Product Research on Activity Log
Yo may find this app here:
/Library/Printers/hp/Utilities/HPPU Plugins/ProductImprovementStudy.hptask/Contents/Helpers/HP Customer Participation.app
Just move it to the trash.
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How do I remove an installed .pkg file
You can check what was installed and remove it manually. Copy the *.pkg file to some empty tmp folder. Then:
xar -xf YOUPACKAGE.pkg
Then print the content of the Bom file with:
lsbom $(find . -...
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Do MacBooks support NVMe SSD drives via the use of a Sintech adapter?
Update：I installed a Samsung 970 pro 1TB on macbook pro 13 2015 (A1502). And everything works well so far. Did not encountered the installation problem for PM981. The whole procedure is easy, the only ...
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2013 MacBookPro with Nvidia GPU and recent macOS
What you've been reading about are the third party nVidia Web Drivers, which nVidia created (primarily) for Mac Pro users installing new graphics cards in their towers. The nVidia Web Drivers do not ...
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How does a generic bluetooth mouse / keyboard work with macos without installing any driver?
Yes. It's the generic USB HID (Human Interface Device) driver/kext or Bluetooth HID profile
All operating systems have a generic HID driver so that USB and Bluetooth keyboards, mice, and track pads ...
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How do you disable the autofocus of a Razer Kiyo webcam on Mac?
This is an old question, but in case people are searching for a free and easy solution for their home office setup, I finally found it.
CameraController is free and works for the Razer Kiyo out of the ...
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How can I uninstall the FTDIUSBSerialDriver?
Answer from codebender itself here:
http://feedback.codebender.cc/knowledgebase/articles/861399-how-to-uninstall-the-drivers-installed-by-codebend
Unistall FTDI drivers
In order to uninstall the ...
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CP2102 device is not listed in /dev on macOS 10.13
I found that macOS High Sierra has blocked all unsigned / unmanaged kernel extensions and the SiLabs kernel extension guide doesn’t have information on how to manually enable the required extensions.
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