Multi-Touch Trackpad in Windows 7 Pro x64

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Multi-Touch Trackpad in Windows 7 Pro x64

Macbook Pro Unibody
OSX 10.5.8 (Leopard)
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Bootcamp 2.1
Trackpad Update 1.1

Just upgraded my Boot Camp partition from Win XP x32 to Win 7 x64. Or rather, I did a clean install, not an upgrade. I'm running all of the above listed stuff. Muti-Touch isn't working on the tack pad, so I don't have RMB functionality and I'm really missing two finger scrolling.

Also, looking in the Boot Camp Control Panel, I don't appear to have any trackpad options, even after installing the trackpad update. I just tried installing it again, and I get a message saying that it won't update my drivers for the tackpad because what I'm trying to install isn't better than what I already have. That's all well and good, but the pad still isn't working with multi-touch.

Any helpful suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance.

n/a, Mac OS X (10.5.8), n/a

Posted on Nov 21, 2009 6:11 PM

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dustinbrown Author

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Nov 22, 2009 12:03 AM in response to dustinbrown

Never mind, I did some more sleuthing.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3920

http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/31/boot.camp.win.7.64.support/

I need to be using Boot Camp 3.0, not 2.1, which means I have to upgrade to Snow Leopard since, to the best of my knowledge, Apple doesn't put the latest version of Boot Camp anywhere to be downloaded independently.

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LeifJ

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Nov 25, 2009 4:16 PM in response to dustinbrown

I had previously installed 3.0 from the Snow Leopard disk and still did not have right-click with a trackpad, which made Windows nearly unusable. However, downloading and installing 2.2 on top of that http://support.apple.com/kb/DL967 and the trackpad is finally fixed. Suggest you try the 2.2 by itself, you need to have 2.1 already installed.

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dustinbrown Author

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Nov 25, 2009 5:30 PM in response to LeifJ

Thanks for the feedback. I uninstalled 2.1, installed 3.0, and I haven't had any issues with it. I can even side scroll in Win 7 using gestures, which I was never able to do in XP. Very happy about that. Big thanks to the Apple folks.

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TStam

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Nov 28, 2009 1:32 AM in response to dustinbrown

We are getting there, but there still is no resolution. It appears that most can get the MM to vertical scroll as I have, but no horizontal. How do we get the horizontal in Windows 7?

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dustinbrown Author

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Nov 28, 2009 7:48 AM in response to TStam

I didn't do anything proactive to get it to work, just the things I mentioned above. Installed Boot Camp 2.1, installed the Trackpad 1.1 update, uninstalled Boot Camp 2.1, Installed Boot Camp 3.0. Side scrolling just started working.

The only thing that's a tad finicky is multi-touch RMB. It works, more or less, but, for example, if I RMB on a bookmark in Firefox to access it's properties (let's say I want to rename it), I have to hold my two fingers down in the click position as as I move the cursor into the conext menu. Otherwise it will launch the bookmarked page. So you can't just two-finger-click on something to evoke a context menu, let go, then use one finger to navigate to the option you want, which is how I would expect it to work.

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