Right-click: How to do it on a laptop?

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by mglish, Aug 19, 2007.

  1. mglish

    mglish Junior Member

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    On a MacBook Pro, you hold down the ctrl key and click. I haven't figuure out how to do it when you're in Windows on a MacBook Pro.

    I did figure out ctrl-alt-delete, however... :)
     
  2. brkirch

    brkirch Pro

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    Select "System Preferences..." from the Apple menu (top-left corner of your screen), click "Keyboard & Mouse", click the "Trackpad" tab and turn on the option that says "Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click". You should find that two-finger right-clicking is easier than ctrl-clicking and works in both Mac OS X and Windows.
     
  3. David5000

    David5000 Pro

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    With a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo, Control+Click (as well as placing two fingers on the trackpad and clicking, as suggested by brkirch) works fine for me.

    David
     
  4. Hugh Watkins

    Hugh Watkins Forum Maven

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    I just plug in USB MS Basic Optical Mouse

    don't install the MS mouse software
    just let parallels tools deal with the mouse

    two buttons
    wheel and wheel click

    holding the wheel down in Mac OS is useful too
    works like Apple + tab

    5 button mouse is overkill

    Hugh W
     

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