How to enable right click with touchpad in Windows?

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How to enable right click with touchpad in Windows?

How can I enable right click with Macbook Pro 2007 on Windows XP? Tapping the touchpad with two fingers does not work. I have installed boot camp driver package.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Feb 22, 2012 7:01 AM

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Shootist007

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Feb 22, 2012 1:44 PM in response to thewk

Check the Driver folder on the Boot Camp Driver Support DVD, or CD, you made.

Look in the Apple folder under Drivers. It is called AppleMultiTouchTrackPadInstaller.exe

That should install a Control Panel Applet.

EDIT:

There is another in that folder called AppleTrackPadInstaller.exe

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thewk Author

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Feb 23, 2012 1:46 AM in response to Shootist007

Yeah I will take a look, I don't have the disc right now but it seems that the right-click was working all the time but it works differently. Instead of tapping with two fingers I need to press touchpad and then press the button. Probably it can be changed with touchpad control panel, so I'll take a look it later when I have the disc.

But this is ok even now, I was indeed wondering why the scrolling with two fingers works great but no right click...

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thewk Author

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Feb 22, 2012 12:33 PM in response to Shootist007

I have installed Boot Camp Drivers 2.1 for XP, I cannot any options to set. With normal touchpads, like Synaptics, they have program which I can use to adjust various settings, there is none for touchpad in this case.

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Shootist007

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Feb 23, 2012 2:30 AM in response to thewk

Oh so you are on a older Macbook Pro, one with an actuall clicking button. I'm on a new 2011 model where you can click on the right bottom of the pad or click with 2 fingers.

I'm not sure how that model works in OS X or Windows for the right click.

Good luck.

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tikweyu

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Oct 6, 2012 8:41 AM in response to Shootist007

did anyone find a solution to this please help, i have the same issue.

I have Retina display which i have installed windows 7. i downloaded the drivers and installed but i cannot right click. i have tried so many things without any success. PLEASE HELP...

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Answer 6

Jan 4, 2013 10:26 PM in response to thewk

I had same problem on Macbook Pro Retina.

Go to Control Panel and open up BOOT CAMP option. I couldn't find it under default Control Panel view of "VIEW BY CATEGORY", but if you change Control Panel to "VIEW BY SMALL/LARGE ICON", you should find it.

Open up Boot Camp, then go to the TRACKPAD tab.

There you willfind both the setting to TAP TO CLICK for both one and two fingers. You can get it to behave just like it does under Mac OS.

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