MBP i7 Windows 7 64 bit trackpad drivers are buggy.

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MBP i7 Windows 7 64 bit trackpad drivers are buggy.

I've had my new MBP for a week now. I like it but I'm frustrated with the trackpad.

There's a bug in the two finger right click. It seems to send a left click when you release the button. As an example, if I want to pin a program to the taskbar. Normally, you right click on the program then click on the "pin this program to the taskbar" line on the pop up menu. When I do that with the two finger click, the pop up menu disappears when I lift my fingers from the pad. The only way I can get it to work is if I move my fingers a little bit to trigger the drag function. Then I can release and click on the pop up menu. It doesn't do this with the bottom corner right click method.

All in all, I'm not happy with the new multi-touch trackpad. This is not a user friendly piece of hardware. It works great as long as you don't need to right click on anything. Right clicking is awkward no matter which method you use - even without the bugs.

I'd prefer a setting that lets you press the fn key to trigger the right click. I think that would work better than the two supported methods - at least for me. I haven't been able to find any programs for Windows that will do it. Does anyone know of any?

Also, is there an official place to report bugs?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 29, 2010 10:54 AM

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Giorgio3

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May 4, 2010 2:16 PM in response to joegolf

EDIT: just got the answer, instead of selecting Apple's drivers for touchpad select Human interface. That's the soulution I found in another post

-Go to Device Manager
-Under Human Interface Devices you have an Apple Trackpad listed change this driver to USB Human Interface Device
-Properties
-Driver (tab)
-Update Driver
-"No, not this time" (radio button)
-Next
-"Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)" (radio button)
-Next
-Dont search, I will choose a driver to install" (radio button)
-Next
-USB Human Interface Device
-Next

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Mils_ace

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May 14, 2010 7:19 AM in response to joegolf

Same issues with the Apple track pad drivers as the left click and right click do not work like they do on the external mouse. (If you use the non apple drivers then the touch and tap stop working !!! so errrrrr that's not great help.

I got the right click by using multi touch (two fingers touching the trackpad) and then right click to get the right click to work.
However I'm not able to get this to work on the main windows start icon ! So have reverted to using an external mouse, because all the keys on the external mouse work as expected.

Dear Apple pleas fix the drivers.

Thanks.

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Mils_ace

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May 14, 2010 7:51 AM in response to Mils_ace

The other way was to use two finger touch facility found in Bootcamp. You will need to start bootcamp control panel, its the grey diamond at the bottom of the windows task bar. Then in the track pad option (if you have un-installed the apple track pad driver you will have to re install this from the bootcamp cd, before you can see this tab). The just select two finger click and secoundery click as you prefer.
You will need the drivers from the osx 10.6.3 DVD.

Hope this helps !
Still think the drivers are perfect.

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May 15, 2010 8:54 PM in response to Mils_ace

I have the same bug. It's real & frustrating. Windows is requirement for work and this machine is almost not worth keeping.

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lawlist

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May 19, 2010 3:58 PM in response to skipanderson52

Does the workaround in the post from Giorgio3 on May 4, 2010 help any? My options are: "Apple Multitouch" and "Apple Multitouch Mouse" -- I do NOT have anything under the human interface that says "trackpad". Help, please . . .

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lawlist

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May 19, 2010 4:55 PM in response to lawlist

My left click is about 50 percent -- hit or miss. I cannot find the "sweet spot" that will guarantee me a left click.

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Nick A

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May 20, 2010 2:40 AM in response to joegolf

Same here on newer Core 2 Duo. Trackpad click and hold to drag a window = right click! Also issues getting iSight to work correctly. Obviously the newer firmware of the new trackpads for momentum scrolling, etc is enough of a difference to be causing issues.

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lawlist

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May 20, 2010 3:17 PM in response to joegolf

Observation #1: To increase the probability of a left click registering, I have discovered that it will work all of the time if one finger from the right hand is touching the trackpad, and one finger from the left hand does the click. If I use only one finger for a left click (without any other finger touching the trackpad), the probability is about 50 percent the left click will register and it depends upon where the pressure is applied (i.e., the lower-left hand corner will almost never work).

Observation #2: In the "Boot Camp Control Pannel -- Trackpad" settings, de-selecting "Two Fingers Secondary Click" has no effect -- i.e., even though it is de-selected, you can still right click by pressing with two fingers on the trackpad. This observation is true if the "One Finger Secondary Click Bottom Right Corner" is checked / enabled.

Any ideas?

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lawlist

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May 20, 2010 3:45 PM in response to joegolf

Observation #3: A workaround is changing the left click to "tap" instead of click, but I am not a "tapper" and I would prefer to use a left click instead.

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May 27, 2010 1:02 AM in response to joegolf

The state of Apples Windows drivers is a joke!

Now for a semi-solution, to get the 2 finger right click to work without generating a left click too and to make the right click work on the task bar *use 3 fingers*.

Yeah I know, backward!!!

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lawlist

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Jun 13, 2010 4:59 PM in response to clinteastman

Does anyone have a direct line to the C.E.O.? Or, perhaps, a time estimate on new drivers that need to be developed by Apple?

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klbz

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Jul 10, 2010 4:31 AM in response to joegolf

I plan to Tweet about this on a daily basis. Please join me.

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colmiak

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Jul 18, 2010 8:14 PM in response to joegolf

I suggest everyone in here check out "trackpad++"

sensitivity is greatly improved and although two finger right click isn't fixed, the dev seems to be actively improving his drivers.

as far as using the fn key + plus clicking to simulate a right click, here's an old utility that does something similar: http://cybernetnews.com/helpful-tip-right-click-in-boot-camp/

press and hold control button and click to simulate right click 🙂

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Jul 19, 2010 1:54 AM in response to joegolf

After a lot of reading these posts the good news is there is an extremely simple answer (worked on my Macbook Pro 2010, Bootcamp running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate)
1) Boot in Windows 7
2) Insert 'Max OS X Install DVD"
3) Run the update when prompted
-All the drivers will be updated/installed and then all the keyboard backlight, fn keys etc will work
4) Open Boot camp in control panel (might have to search for it)
5) Set the trackpad options
-That's it!

Hope this helps as none of the other suggestions seemed to work for me...

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hv43082

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Jul 23, 2010 8:27 PM in response to sketchy mac

Hi,

I was wondering if zoom, three finger moving webpage forward/backward, and rotation gestures work with MBA multitouch pad on win7?

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