Trackpad - tap to click gets reset on laptop restart

I have set my trackpad setting to "tap to Click" but it gets reset every time I restart my macbook pro. Could you please help me overcome this problem!?

Tap to click has to be enabled separately in your Windows partition. I'm assuming you've installed all the Boot Camp drivers - in which case you need to navigate to the bottom right of your task bar and press the little arrow to reveal all of your background services. You should see the Boot Camp logo. Double click on it (or if that fails, right click on it and open the Preferences menu) and you should see some tabs such as 'Startup Disk', 'Keyboard' etc. Navigate to the one called 'Trackpad' and you should find a checkbox for the tap to click option.

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