Trackpad Click in Boot Camp

Just installed Leopard on MPB 2.2 Santa Rosa. Trackpad Click does not work (tapping on the trackpad to select). Anyone know a fix? Thanks.

Yeah this really urks me that the tap-click doesn't work. I've got WinXP SP2 running on my Macbook Pro. It's really frustrating that they don't enable this, but maybe I don't know the whole story.
Also, another feature not enabled in Windows is to ignore accidental trackpad touching. In Mac OS X, there is an option in the trackpad preferences to ignore accidental input. Basically it tries to eliminate any unintended trackpad touches e.g. your palms tapping it while you type. In boot camp, this doesn't work. Which is a HUGE problem in Windows for me because that's pretty much all I do is type.
Is anyone else having this problem?

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  • Question for Apple: When do we get "Trackpad Click" in Boot Camp???

    Parallels has it. VMWare Fusion has it. Why can't Boot Camp do 'trackpad click'???
    I'm buggered if I can work out what was actually UPGRADED in BC 2.0 -- seems to work exactly the same as the beta versions.

    Question for Apple
    http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html/
    And FWIW, I hate trackpad click. Whenever I try to help someone on a laptop which has it on by default, I end up clicking on everything when I'm only trying to move the mouse pointer. So I'm ecstatic that Apple is smart enough to turn it off by default. But I agree that people who have been trained to use this horrible feature ought to have it as an option. But I'm hoping Apple provides the option of focus-follows-mouse for Mac OS X first.

  • Is anybody else struggling with an intermittent connection when using the Magic Mouse/Trackpad ONLY on Boot Camp?

    Hi,
    I've seen thousands of posts about Bluetooth connection issues and interference and stutter/lag for both the Magic Mouse and Trackpad (affecting both Mac OS X and Windows under Boot Camp) but my problem is different.
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    The Wireless Keyboard is perfect, and works well 5 metres from the machine. The Mouse and Trackpad, though, don't even work reliably when they are 6 inches from the machine. The built-in trackpad on the laptop works perfectly too, in Windows and Mac.
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    Obviously, the hardware is not at fault, and I assume the signal strength doesn't vary between operating system (why would it?) so I'm left believing this must be a driver issue. The TrackPad and Magic Mouse drivers have been out for a couple of years, so I'm surprised they can still be this bad. I tried both the latest driver from Boot Camp 4.0 (3.2.0.0) for the Trackpad, and also the older one from Boot Camp 3.2 (3.1.0.7) and both are equally bad for me.
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    Kyle

    SOLVED!
    After much testing, I have found the cause of lagging/jumpiness on the Bluetooth Magic Mouse and Magic TrackPad in Boot Camp. Hopefully this will help others:
    The drivers for the Broadcom 802.11n Wireless Adapter have a setting called "Bluetooth Collaboration" that is Disabled by default. Enabling this option removes the problem instantly. My Magic Trackpad now works flawlessly, even if I stand 6 metres from the machine. It now works just as well as under Mac OS. The setting can be found under:
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  • Secondary (right) click in Boot Camp

    My track pad is wonderful while computing as a Mac but when I am running Windows (as I have to at work sometimes) with boot camp. I can't right click which is inconvenient at best and sometimes a real problem when there is no menu to go to for the commands that the right click would elicit.
    Anyone have a solution? Am I missing something obvious?

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  • Any solution yet? MBP trackpad terrible in Boot Camp. Please rewrite the drivers.

    Dear Apple,
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    It is ridiculous to try to do serious work when clicks are often misinterpreted as right-clicks, or else right-clicks are interpreted as something else.  Under Lion, I can make it work ok to hold down 2 fingers and then to a physical click with my thumb. (Awkward -- a 2nd mouse button would be way better, but it's functional). Under Boot Camp and Windows, though, it's broken. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
    I'm considering returning my MBP for this simple little thing that you should be able to fix. Usually I carry my physical mouse around with me so I can actually have a right-button, but at the moment I'm sitting in a cafe in a chair with no room for the real mouse, and hence I'm feeling unproductive as so many of my clicks turn into something else.
    I bought a MBP because I like the hardware, and I use Lion for a lot of things too, but I also do serious Windows development under Visual Studio.
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    Maybe you could offer a version of MBP with 2 actual physical mouse buttons instead of the built-in crappy one.... I'm sure there's demand for it, at least to the population of your customers who use these awesome quad-core monster computers for serious work instead of writing emails and watching YouTube videos.
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    Just to update this post with the the same problem.
    I also have the new Macbook Pro with SL and on Bootcamp XP installed. Everything
    is working fine except the trackpad.
    I´ve tried out the DVD the came with the origin Bootcamp (2.2 !), BC from SL-DVD
    (3.0) and the brandnew Apple BC update 3.1.
    Also tried to de-/reinstall, but trackpad´s still not working.
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  • Right click in Boot Camp

    How do you right click in Windows after installing Boot Camp on the Macbook Pro?

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  • Avoid miss click in boot camp when typing

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  • I am working on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009) with boot camp running Windows 7 pro 64-bit.  Windows crashes quite often now-a-days and I need to get this fixed. I heard that updating boot camp can help.  Currently I am running Version 3.0.4 (322).

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    Boot Camp 5.0 Drivers
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    http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf
    http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdf
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    When your system restarts your Windows 8 installation is done.
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  • Mac book pro / boot camp "answers" for dummies

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    Very nice write up.Should help more than a few dum...er,uh...people.
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