Turning off the backlit keyboard in bootcamp?

How do I turn off the backlit keyboard on my macbook pro when running Windows XP via boot camp?

 

All you have to do is hit the "lower brightness" button on the keyboard, but you have to make sure you have the BootCamp drivers installed.

 

I didn't have this problem in XP but in win 7 I can't get it past the lowest setting, not that it really bothers me much.

 

Remember that you're using a beta OS.

 

mine doesn't turn off.. it stops at the lowest setting. but shuts down when i put it in bright light...

 

If you loaded the boot camp drivers, there should be a program called boot camp in your start menu. Search for it maybe. Open that and it should let you adjust it with a slider from there. But like the other poster said, it's a beta so no guarantees.

 

My also don't off using the later 2008 macbook pro with 9600 graphics card in xp mode

 

same here. this has always bugged me.

 

How to turn off keyboard backlight in Boot Camp:
http://www.powerplan7.com/features_macbook.htm

 

So is powerplan still the only way to turn off that annoying keyboard light?!?!

I can't believe apple hasn't been able to do this with a bootcamp update....they probably do it on purpose.........

 

Apple designs their hardware to work with their equipment, and provides drivers for other OS etc as a courtesy to their user base. They are under no obligation to spend time and resources (also read = corporate funds and money) to develop added functionality for their hardware on other platforms, i.e. MS products.

People have to stop assuming that Apple *should* do anything about adding functionality to Bootcamp, which they seem to update roughly in conjunction with each OS X release. Yes, there are things that may not function perfectly under MS but this is not, and has never been, anything near a focus or priority of Apple. It works, but not as completely as a native product.... that's the way it is, Apple doesn't employ a huge number of MS software engineers and there is no reason that they have to spend more on what might also (as is AppleTV) be classified as a "hobby."

 

Agree with what you're saying about the no obligation. However, Apple markets their MacBook as "built for compatibility", I think it would be false advertising if they were to leave out any major compatibility problems.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/compatibility/

They may not be employing as many people as MS, but I know Apple is definitely making enough to contract/employ/pay someone to actually get the drivers to work properly. If their marketing department is focused to sell their Apple Notebooks as "built for compatibility" I think they will need to have the obligation to make their claims true...

 

Macs are compatible with Windows. You can install it and run your favorite Windows programs, you can communicate with Windows machines, and you can transfer files with Windows machines. What more can you expect?

Please explain how you feel their claims aren't true. Just because the Windows drivers they provide may not have the exact same functionality as drivers provided by other hardware manufacturers, it doesn't make their claims inaccurate.

 

Ha... They for sure do it on purpose!
Yes, the PowerPlanAssistant is the only known solution which doesn't interfere with BootCamp keyboard manager. And thanks God it exists, because the backlight is just too annoying on Windows. Just too much. Before PowerPlanAssistant arrived, I have even been thinking of destroying the hardware circuit which powers these crazy leds...
In fact, there are 2 more things to be resolved on Boot Camp:
- HDD is not in AHCI mode (uses more power, and is slower in many scenarios)
- Trackpad driver is POOR

If someone resolve those, I'm ready to donate 100 bucks. Or even 150. I'm not joking.

 

Apple advertise support for Windows via Boot Camp. I would be fine with that if they also mention how extremely crappy the support it, and listed what doesn't work properly in Windows with their products, clearly on the website. Then normal people would ask Apple: you call this support?

I remember their first version of the multitouch tackpad driver for Windows. Whoever wrote that driver must have been totally incompetent, or he got orders from Steve to make the driver a steaming turd.