How to enable trackpad tapping in Vista on MacBook


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I've got Vista Home Basic installed on my MacBook and it works great apart from the trackpad. I've popped the Leopard disc in and it's installed all the Boot Camp stuff but the trackpad doesn't work how it does in Leopard.

I basically want it to work the same as in Leopard - one finger on Trackpad moves mouse pointer, 2 fingers scrolls window, 1 finger tap on trackpad = left mouse click, 2 finger tap = right mouse click. The problem is that the tapping doesn't work so I have to click the button for a left click and put 2 fingers on the trackpad and click the button for a right click which is a bit of a paid. I've had a search on Google and can't find any other way to enable the trackpad tapping - SURELY it should work the same as on Leopard?!

2 finger scrolling DOES work so if I could somehow enable tapping the 2 finger for right mouse click should also work.

Anyone know how to fix this?

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I've got Vista Home Basic installed on my MacBook and it works great apart from the trackpad. I've popped the Leopard disc in and it's installed all the Boot Camp stuff but the trackpad doesn't work how it does in Leopard.

I basically want it to work the same as in Leopard - one finger on Trackpad moves mouse pointer, 2 fingers scrolls window, 1 finger tap on trackpad = left mouse click, 2 finger tap = right mouse click. The problem is that the tapping doesn't work so I have to click the button for a left click and put 2 fingers on the trackpad and click the button for a right click which is a bit of a paid. I've had a search on Google and can't find any other way to enable the trackpad tapping - SURELY it should work the same as on Leopard?!

2 finger scrolling DOES work so if I could somehow enable tapping the 2 finger for right mouse click should also work.

Anyone know how to fix this?

The feature of '2 finger click' is a gesture, and Windows doesn't support gestures unfortunately.

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The feature of '2 finger click' is a gesture, and Windows doesn't support gestures unfortunately.

windows does what the driver tells it to. the gestures are completely up to how the hardware tells vista to interpret the info.

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The fact that 2 finger scrolling works shows that Vista is aware I have 2 fingers on the trackpad so 2 finger tapping should be possible.

In any case, 1 finger tapping doesn't work either so I guess we need Apple to update the driver.

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Yea, the only way you'll hope to get it fixed is by sending Apple some feedback. You might be able to find some other trackpad drivers that work for the MacBook's trackpad. I would help, but I use VMware Fusion instead of Boot Camp.

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I am assuming you have a new unibody machine.

I know you are using the latest "less than legal" solution but to get the multi-touch features to work in the future you can download an update to the drivers from Apples website

They are a modified driver to the ones found on your disk.

They are here:

http://support.apple.com/downloads/Multi_T...dows_XP___Vista

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I am assuming you have a new unibody machine.

I know you are using the latest "less than legal" solution but to get the multi-touch features to work in the future you can download an update to the drivers from Apples website

They are a modified driver to the ones found on your disk.

They are here:

http://support.apple.com/downloads/Multi_T...dows_XP___Vista

Tried them they don't work for older Macbooks (pre early 2008 anyway). The Snow Leopard one's definitely do though.

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Yay! All now works with latest Snow Leopard Boot Camp drivers! (Available from your nearest favorite bittorrent site).

Good to hear that Snow Leopard will finally include the proper drivers that should have been available years ago.

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