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Q: How do I get my Force Touch trackpad to perform multi-touch functions in Windows 10?

I have an 13" early 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina Display. I recently used BootCamp to add Windows 10 to it, and I cannot use the Multi-Touch functions. This computer has a Force Touch trackpad, which is what I think is the reason as to why I cannot use the multi-touch. Is there some update I need or something? I have checked all the drivers and updated them all. I have installed the latest Windows 10 updates, and on the Mac partition, I am running the latest public build of El Capitan. I will note that I cannot Force Click in Windows 10 either, but I believe that is to be expected. All other trackpad functions run as expected.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, Windows 10

Posted on Jan 22, 2016 4:48 PM

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Q: How do I get my Force Touch trackpad to perform multi-touch functions in Windows 10?

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  • by Gary Heinonen,

    Gary Heinonen Gary Heinonen Apr 1, 2016 10:03 AM in response to apple ios genius
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    Apr 1, 2016 10:03 AM in response to apple ios genius

    There isnt support for extended gestures of the track pad. I'm having trouble just getting the driver to enable a right click. I've tried uninstalling the multi touch track pad in device manager of windows 10 and then installing the multi touch driver directly by extracting the driver from its zip file located in the Boot Camp drivers folder. The Apple Software updater for windows did not work. It has a problem where it fails to run because some of the driver installers that its scripted to run are failing or crashing and then not returning any progress status to the Apple Software Updater for windows. The end result is the Boot Camp assistant files never get completely installed. I have a Macbook Pro 15 2015 with Cirus audio and the Software update gets stuck on a Realtek audio installer, but before it gets there its crashes on some other driver first. This Boot Camp 6 version is a freaking mess, by far the worst set of driver failures I've seen with Apple Boot Camp to date. And they dont seem to be aware that the Windows 10 Boot Camp 6 installer environment is having problems. Mine was upgraded from windows 7 to windows 10. When I try to run the Boot Camp Assistant it reports a problem with the partition, but my Windows 10 works well. So I'm only able to run the Boot Camp download of the driver files from its menu.

  • by Gary Heinonen,

    Gary Heinonen Gary Heinonen Apr 1, 2016 10:24 AM in response to Gary Heinonen
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    Apr 1, 2016 10:24 AM in response to Gary Heinonen

    I found that if I extracted from the Boot Camp Windows Support files (the windows drivers) the "BOOTCAMP" driver package has a file just named BootCamp and it has an application called Apple Control Panel in its zip file. If you launch that control panel app you can turn on the secondary track pad click. So because my Boot Camp windows support will not install correctly due to the scripted drivers crashing  during the install process, it fails to install this control panel.