Noob Question: How to Right Click?

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jarling

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Ok, I give. I am working on a MacBook Pro, and the Guest OS is Windows XP Version 2002 SP 1. I can't figure out how to create a right click so I can make a new folder on the Windows XP desktop. I've tried Apple Click, Ctrl Click, Option Click. Can anyone tell me the secret code? Please?

Many thanks!
 
Do you have 10.4.7? Just put two fingers on the trackpad and click on your trackpad button. Otherwise, you can use a two-button USB mouse.
 
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I think you're all missing the basics here.

If you are right handed then place your middle finger on the right button, apply downward pressure to hear click, then release.

If you are left handed then place your index finger on the right button, apply downward pressure to hear click, then release.
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constant said:
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I think you're all missing the basics here.

If you are right handed then place your middle finger on the right button, apply downward pressure to hear click, then release.

If you are left handed then place your index finger on the right button, apply downward pressure to hear click, then release.
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If you have a Mac laptop all you have the the right (correct) button. There's no wrong button or a left button or a button on the right. There's just 'the button'.

The new mouse drivers allow two-finger tapping to create a right click event as well as two-finger scrolling (left and right and up and down).

dp
 
The real problem is that WINDOWS IS NOT MAC and never will be. Windows is designed for a two button mouse, and anything you do to make do with a single button is at best a hack. If you want to use Windows, either on a WinTel machine or under emulation, you will have a LOT less trouble if you just go out and blow the six or seven dollars it costs and get a two button mouse and stop trying to cram Windows into the Mac UI model, where it will NEVER fit.

You can argue forever over which model is "better" and you will never get everyone to agree, but one thing for absolutely sure is that they are DIFFERENT and always will be.

So the answer to the question of how to get a right click, is get a two (or more) button mouse and click the right button.
 
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