Is Bootcamp For Mac Safe

Overall, I would use Bootcamp.It's safe and secure as long as you dont download any malware or spyware. I hope this helps 0 0. Just because most Windows malware is for Windows doesn't mean some will be made to also attack the Mac side. Many Windows in Bootcamp users have come here.

Update 19th August 2015: Apple have released, which fixes all of the below when using Windows 10. If you already have Bootcamp 5 installed, run the Apple Software Update utility to get the latest set of drivers.

The only oddity I’ve had with Bootcamp 6 is that is resets your DPI scaling to 200%. Windows 10 on Bootcamp (Macbook Pro 13 inch, Bootcamp 5.1) has some teething issues as of build 10162. SSD Powering down problems You might notice Windows hanging for extended periods of time or blue screening – the SSD is literally powering down underneath Windows.

The Bootcamp drivers don’t properly support Windows 10’s powering down of the SSD to save battery. Your Event log might have references to “”Event 129, storahci – Reset to device, Device RaidPort0, was issued.” To fix this, you need to disable AHCI Link Power Management and prevent storahci from going into low power mode. Copy and paste the following into a new text file called “enable-hipm.reg” and save it: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Power PowerSettings 0012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442 0b2d69d7-a2a1-449c-9680-f91c70521c60] 'Attributes'=dword:00000002 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Power PowerSettings 0012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442 dab60367-53fe-4fbc-825e-521d069d2456] 'Attributes'=dword:00000002 2.

Double click the file to import the records into the registry. Right click on the Battery icon in the Taskbar, select “Power Options”. Click “Change plan settings” under the “Balanced” option.

Then click “Change advanced power settings”. Expand the “Hard disk” node and you’ll see “ACHI Link Power Management – HIPM/DIPM”. You need to set the value to “Active” as seen below: 5. Create a another regedit file “storahci.reg” with the following content: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services storahci Parameters Device] 'SingleIO'=hex(7):2a,00,00,00 'NoLPM'=hex(7):2a,00,00,00 6. Double click the file to import the registry entries. This stops storahci from going into Low Power Mode.

A restart should then solve the SSD freezing problems. System Restore, Restore Points and Windows 7 style backups do not work Again, if you are getting messages such as “check the event log for VSS errors” when trying to backup or create a restore point, and then finding event log messages like: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error CreateFileW(? GLOBALROOT Device HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy48,0x80000000,0x00000003,). Hr = 0x80070001, Incorrect function. Operation: Processing PreFinalCommitSnapshots Context: Execution Context: System Provider Then you’ll find that this is another Bootcamp driver problem, specifically the applehfs.sys driver that allows read only access to HFS volumes. You need to disable this from starting up: 1. Download and run it as an Administrator.

On the server logs, I see where the user connected and downloaded the contact list, but then it gives me some errors, like these two: SIP/2.0 403 Location profile only available when UC enabled SIP/2.0 401 Unauthorized I'm not sure where the problem comes from. It seems to be something going on in the Lync 2011 client. The Communicator 2011 client connects successfully, and on Windows we aren't seeing any problems like this either. Njac 6a 14-4.3(c).

Search for “apple” and you’ll see “applehfs.sys”. Disable it by unchecking AppleHFS and restart. You should now be able to create System Restore images and Windows 7 style backups. Hopefully Apple updates Bootcamp for Windows 10. If I find any other issues I’ll update this post. 23 Responses to “Windows 10 on Mac Bootcamp – fixes (Updated)” •.

Gavan Ed, fantastic, I’ve been very worried about not being able to do restore points or full backups. As an aside the “SingleIO” and “NoLPM” changes you note above I made early Feb 2015 based on Sebastian Foss’ blog, () the changes do halve the SSD sequential read performance. In AS SSD Bench I was getting 900+MB/s before the change, now 549MB/s. But it’s better than disk reset/system pauses several times a day and boot times were reduced significantly As you say let’s hope Apple do fix with improved bootcamp soon, maybe El Capitan Thanks Gavan •.