Adjusting track pad sensitivity in Win 7 under Boot Camp

I've been through all of those, thanks. Nothing about scrolling speed or sensitivity to input there, though.

Note about those links, though: I did have to change the secondary click option away from the MacBook's native two finger touch. Just impossible to use without other unwanted things happening! For me at least.

And the "old (one finger) way" requires an "option-click" (or a "control-click" - I forget which and I'm in OS X as I reply) rather than a lower right corner click to function at all. I.e., clicking in the lower right (or anywhere else) simply acts like a regular click anywhere else on the trackpad.

So I don't know why the support article and my reality differ. But they clearly do.

Meanwhile, back to my main problem, I think I have some old USB mice in a box somewhere and that may be the best solution for me.... ....I'll report back when I have a chance to try. I'm swamped at the moment, and it may take some looking to find input devices I thought I'd left in the past....

PS: Just venting, having to remember to use control-S, control-V, control-P, etc. rather than Command-S, Command-C, etc. is another annoyance, as the Macbook's control key is small and making the gesture with letter keys requires considerably more coordination than the Command key equivalents. So again, more compromises (and having to remember the change everytime I switch OS's) in the Boot Camp experience.

And then (though this was expected), there's having to remember to scroll up instead of down, which also drives me a little nuts after coming from an OS X session. But I found a possible fix on How to Geek which I may try to alleviate that issue. If anyone reading this is interested, here's the link:http://www.howtogeek.com/57542/how-to-get-the-worst-os-x-lion-feature-in-window s-reverse-scrolling/

Note: this requires installing the Windows "AutoHotKey" program to write a script, so haven't tried it yet either.

Humorous note: The article tells you how to reverse scrolling, but calls it the "worst OS X Lion feature" lolz... ...meanwhile I found it much more natural than what I've been doing for over a decade within minutes....

I found a wireless Microsoft mouse in my house and plugged it in. Windows immediately installed a configuration program for that particular mouse (Model 1007), and things got a lot better all around immediately.

And oddly (to me) not just when using the mouse, but also in terms of the trackpad functioning - that is, it's still a little herky-jerky and goes from too-fast jumping around to balking on hitting a particular screen location, but seems notably less so in both regards. And when it does, I simply reach for the mouse.

Also, in terms of my last entry on this thread, a lower right corner trackpad click now brings up a proper right-click/context menu action. And option-click no longer brings up that menu. Your guess as to why this has changed is as good as mine, I'm sure. But it just happened.

There's more to this oddity: Every time I make an adjustment to the regular mouse behavior control panel in Win 7, after I do so, the Boot Camp Control panel pops up. And I see that the option to use the lower right corner of the trackpad is not checked even though that's now the behavior. (See screenshot below)

And what I get with two fingers is screen scrolling, not a context menu. More mysteries, but at least I have a more useable system.

I also felt confident enough to re-enable extended displays (as I have on the Mac side) I'd set my external monitor to mirror on the Boot Camp side because of how flaky navigation was, but now that mode feels quite usable as well. So all in all, using the machine in BC still has a few compromises, but is pretty livable at this point.

So while I keep experimenting and diagnosing, I'm not ready to declare the problem solved, but thanks again for your input and I hope my Boot Camp enigmas are at least interesting to you. And I'm starting to feel fairly hopeful that I may end up having a "good enough" solution to my occasional need for Windows in this "Frankenmac" setup yet. 😉