Installing Windows on Mac: Part 2

I mentioned towards the end of Part 1 that some things don’t work as expected with running Windows 10 on a bare-metal 2012 Macbook Air. The function controls don’t work, bluetooth doesn’t work, sound doesn’t work, etc.

During my hiatus, I have had to reinstall Windows for reasons I cannot recall. In my research, I had stumbled across a Reddit post somewhere about something called Bootstrap. Which I understand is a First-Party Apple solution to run Windows on a Mac natively for stuff like dual-booting. More importantly, Bootstrap contains the drivers that are necessary to properly run the Mac’s hardware components.

With this newfound discovery, I reinstalled Windows 10 as usual. But this time, I installed the Bootstrap Drivers properly. And lo and behold, the Macbook worked brilliantly and the once disabled functionalities are now restored. If I recall correctly, This is where I obtained the Bootstrap drivers. But I do remember it was an .exe file that installed drivers on Disk C:\