[MacTUG] TIP: Fix for Boot Camp lack of right click
Marlon A. Griffith
m3griffi at engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Jul 12 10:57:24 EDT 2006
MacWindows. July 12, 2006 -- Aaron Rigby reports that a Windows
utility called applemou.exe adds right-click functionality to Windows
XP running in Apple's Boot Camp beta. The utility was written for
using a Apple one-button mouse with Windows. Rigby reports:
I was reading Joshua Byers' review of Boot Camp Beta for Intel
Macs and wanted to inform him of a tiny "fix-it" program that I found
to solve the "Right Click" issue on the Intel MacBook Pro's when
using Boot Camp to run XP.
The program is called applemou.exe and was made by RH Designs.
The program makes the touch pad click button work the same as
"CTRL-Click" in O SX for using "Right-Click" in windows. It is
freeware and is clean. I simply put it in the Start Up folder and it
will run every time.
Unfortunately I haven't figure out a way for the software to run
every boot without the "Apple Mouse Utility" window opening (you can
close this window and it will run silently still), but I can put up
with that minor annoyance to get my right click back. Its copyright
is in 2002, and it comes as a ZIP file with a READ ME.txt with the
EULA. It works fine in all apps that I've tried, including games, and
web browsing.
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