Right-click weirdness in Boot Camp

I'm seeing something weird and can't find any information on the problem. When using the "two finger, click" maneuver to right-click in OSX, it works fine. When using the same two-finger, click in a Windows Vista VM (via Fusion), it works fine.
However, when doing the exact same two-finger, click in the Boot Camp Vista instance (which incidentally is the same Vista instance that works fine in Fusion), it doesn't work... instead, touching the pad with THREE fingers and clicking is what it takes to perform a right-click! What the heck? My first thought is that there is a serious bug in the Boot Camp touchpad drivers, because it works as expected in OSX and a Vista VM, neither of which use the Boot Camp touchpad drivers.
Can anyone else confirm this behavior, and if there is a fix for it? I just installed the new touchpad firmware for OSX but as expected it didn't change how the touchpad works in Boot Camp. I'm running the Boot Camp drivers that ship with 10.5.5... are there newer ones available somewhere?

This has been frustrating me for days. Another thing about it that doesn't work is that if you enable tap-to-click, you still have to push down with three fingers and click (instead of tapping) to get it to work. As a new Mac user, I must say I'm disappointed in their driver support for Boot Camp.
Anyone else notice how hot the bottom of the MBP gets when in Boot Camp for any length of time? I'm worried the temperature/fan control isn't very well programmed too. Video card and memory controller heating up badly.

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下げ髪 wrote:
Bootcamp told me the windows support software was no longer avalable from Apple's servers. If I manage to get it from apple independently, do I download it from the windows side or the mac side of my drive partition?
Read the Boot Camp install guides. http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

Tap to click Windows 8 Boot Camp MacBook Pro Mountain Lion?

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Change “Tap to Click” (and other preferences) using Apple’s Boot Camp Control Panel:
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A weird Vista/Boot Camp issue

OK, this one seems backwards to me. My XP Boot Camp installation failed after 4 months of relatively trouble free operation. Parallels started flaking out about a month ago, so I started to use Fusion. Long story short, I blew away the partition and installed Vista Enterprise instead. All seemed to go well, and I successfully set up the Parallels VM using the Boot Camp partition. However, I can no longer boot into Boot Camp Vista. It hangs every time at the dotted progress line (or whatever it's called). I've tried repairs via the Boot Camp install process and have reinstalled the Boot Camp Drivers - to no avail. The strange thing is that I am still able to get into the Vista partition using Parallels. In fact, it works great! What would cause the Boot Camp startup to fail that wouldn't also affect Parallels? Very perplexing.
I used to be a Mac hater, then I softened up and accepted them. Now, I hate PCs and Macs. One is just as frustrating as the other.
Any help would be appreciated.
Ed

Ask or look on Parallels forum.
The upgrade to Leopard and BootCamp 2.0 has bitten more than a couple, almost "out of the blue" just like you.
Vista Recovery Console or Environment would be one. Boot from Vista DVD and see if it can repair the partition.
The latest Parallels for Leopard are pretty much "test this for us" in some cases.
There are problems with Fusion 1.1 (beta) along with Leopard, too. I don't like the way Fusion degraded my BootCamp graphics (Nvidia Vista 64-bit) to "generic" and some other issues so I am waiting for these VMs to mature.
Also, I'm guessing that there aren't a lot of people using Enterprise or that have access to it. Business and Ultimate, yes. And Apple doesn't officially support x64 (though it seemed to install better this time around).
Don't beta test or adopt a new OS or anything.
I keep Vista on its own drive and it works quite well (user error: installed Norton SystemWorks).
XP failed. Parallels flaked out. Fusion died an early death. All have some common elements.

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Well, I believe I have finally successfully installed Boot Camp 2.1 for Windows Vista 32-bit on a MacBook Pro. After trying last Friday to install it, failing miserably, and a weekend spent reinstalling operating systems, etc. I feel a bit better. Although, these problems shouldn't have to happen to begin with, in my opinion.
I have learned to backup even more religiously than I have before -- you don't know how many restore points, complete PC backups, etc. I have done over the past few days.
Anyway, here are some stats that I would like to compare with other folks to make sure that I have everything that this update was supposed to offer. I wish Apple would provide the details about the update, but they don't. Here are my statistics, many probably Windows Vista 32-bit specific.
_Miscellaneous Notes_
I have a MacBook Pro 2.2 GHz, 15", 4 GB RAM -- I bought it in June 2007 (I forget what the chipset is - Santa Rosa? - but it was a new model then)
I have Vista Ultimate 32-bit
I had Vista SP1 installed before installing the BC 2.1 update
I did not have any other language packs installed
If I right click on the Boot Camp icon in the taskbar and say "About", the version I see is Version 2.1 (Build 210A12)
Drivers
Apple Built-In Bluetooth: 4/6/2008, version 2.1.0.1
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT: 1/24/2008, version 7.15.11.6763
Apple Keyboard: 3/10/2008, version 2.1.0.0 (I had two of these listed)
Apple Trackpad: 8/28/2007, version 2.0.1.4
Apple IR Receiver: 11/1/2007, version 2.0.1.1
Built-in iSight: 6/21/2006, version 6.0.6001.18000
Apple Trackpad Enabler: 8/28/2007, version 2.0.1.4
Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter: 4/15/2007, version 7.2.0.204 (there may be an update to this that I haven't installed yet)
Marvell Yukon 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller: 3/23/2007, version 10.12.7.3 (there may be an update to this that I haven't installed yet)
Realtek High Definition Audio: 11/14/2007, version: 6.0.1.5512 (Note: This was disabled after the install of BC 2.1. I had to reenable it in the device manager. I think maybe my virus scanning program might have done something, but I am not sure)
Note: I had 3 monitors listed in my Device manager, but I only have two -- the laptop monitor and an external monitor connected to it. That is weird, I think.
_Windows Experience Index_
Processor: 5.1
Memory (RAM): 4.8
Graphics: 5.9 (This might have went up with the new driver, I don't remember)
Gaming Graphics: 5.4
Primary Hard Disk: 4.6
Base Score: 4.6 (because of hard drive)
_Final Words_
This wasn't a smooth update at all by any means.
I hope this helps a little. Please let me know if you have the same sort of statistics.
Thanks.
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Mac HD unmounted; Boot Camp partition still available

Hi there,
So I've seen many different threads regarding this issue, but I'm in a particular situation and I am looking for some advice.
Regarding my situation, I have the problem where every time I boot my Mac, the "grey bar" loads for a bit, stops, and shuts down. I went to Disk Utility in Recovery Mode to check it out, and it stated that the disk can't be repaired and advised me to back-up and restore the drive. The thing is, I don't have a back-up of my drive. I know, in hindsight, that it was stupid for me not to consider backing it up, but as the title suggests, I still have access to my Windows partition where i'm able to copy and paste files from my Mac Drive to either my Windows Drive or other disks.
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Opey:
How about trying the option from the Windows side? Here is how:
1. Boot into Windows
2. *Right Click* on the *Boot Camp Icon* (Black diamond shaped icon in the Windows system tray near the clock).
3. Choose *Boot Camp Control Panel* on the pop up
4. Click on *Startup Disk* tab
5. Choose *Macintosh HD* and choose OK
6. Shutdown Windows normally and reboot.
See if the above procedure works for you.
Axel F.

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I've just escaped Boot Camp ****. Went to Boot Camp and it didn't start up as it has for a year.
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Mac Pro, march 09, dual quad core, four internal hard drives.
I named the four HDDs, Drive 1, Drive 2, Drive 3, Drive 4. Drive 1 has the Mac OS. I plan on dedicating the entire Drive 4 to Windows OS and video storage.
Questions:
1. Right now I have Boot Camp installed on Drive 1. I want to remove it and start over because I made the mistake of installing Win7 Pro 32 bit. I bought the 64 bit version for the new install. To remove the existing Boot Camp do I simply use Boot Camp to make Drive 1, one Mac partition again?
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1. The BootCamp Assistant in OSX is indeed the best solution to remove your current Windows installation/partition.
+To delete Windows and the Windows partition:+
1 Start up in Mac OS X.
2 Quit all open applications and log out any other users on your computer.
3 Open Boot Camp Assistant.
4 Select “Create or remove a Windows partition,” and then click Continue.
5 Do one of the following:
If your computer has a single internal disk, click Restore.
If your computer has multiple internal disks, select the disk with Windows
on it, and then select “Restore to a single Mac OS partition” and click
Continue.
Since you are fumbling with the partition structure on your harddisk you should have/make a backup or bootable cone of your OSX before starting, just in case.
2. A good recipe for installing Windows 7 on a dedicated harddisk is to pull out all other harddisks (the first three in your scenario) then boot your MAcPro from the WIndows 7 install DVD and install it on the fourth HD.
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http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup10.6.pdf
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I have installed Windows using Boot Camp and I also get the blue screen of death right after installing the Boot Camp drivers and restarting.
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