Please take into consideration that you will need to purchase a Windows license to activate Windows, or if you’re working in a company they might provided for you. Boot Camp and Windows will restart several times during this process. You will also need to provide an user name and password that will be use every time you log into Windows. The Windows installation will begin and you will be asked for you personal data, date and time, network and/or Wi-Fi password etc.
The installation process will take between 25 minutes to an hour depending on your internet connection and your Mac hardware, the Assistant will install the Windows Support Software, then it will partition your hard drive, install Windows 10 for you and finally install the Boot Camp tools needed to run Windows properly.īefore installing Windows 10, Boot Camp will ask you for your password. Please be aware that once you have made this decision, will be very difficult to change it, most probably you will require an technician to do it for you. On the ‘Install Windows’ screen please choose the Windows ISO file that you previously downloaded from the Microsoft site, and the decided how much space you are going to spare for the Windows partition. Once you are on the Boot Camp App, click on Continue. Navigate to your Application folder, scroll down until you find the folder “Utilities”, choose Boot Camp Assistant and launch it.
The only thing that you need to do before initiating this process is to check that your Mac has enough free space. Installing-Wilcom-EmbroideryStudio-on-a-Mac.pdf Setting up your Mac
Virtualization is the ability to run Windows and Windows base programs within the Mac OS as a window without the need of rebooting. Be aware that in order to use this option you will have to re-boot your Mac every time you want to use Windows.
Yes you can! There are basically two options, Boot Camp and Virtualizationīoot Camp is a technology that allows booting your Mac in different operating systems, and the Boot Camp Assistant will guide you to convert a portion of your Mac hard drive into a full Windows PC environment this is done by partitioning the hard drive, installing Windows on that new partition and use the Mac hardware as a PC (taking advantage of the Intel chipsets). Click here for future updates.Ĭan I Install Wilcom EmbroideryStudio on my Mac? What options do I have? UPDATE: At present, EmbroideryStudio does not support Windows on Mac with Apple M1 chip using Parallels Desktop.