Magic trackpad on windows xp

[barny]

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Hey. I've looked around and apparently you can get the trackpad to work on a solely windows machine. Is this true? If so what features work and dont work? My girlfriend is thinking of getting me one for Christmas but I thought it would be good to check first.

Barny 

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I am also interested to know if the magic mouse and apple wired keyboard would work aswell. Which would be best for a windows xp user. Magic mouse/magic trackpad?

 

[dmarch]

I've also heard this was possible but as yet have not been able to make it work. I also have a Windows 7 machine, which installed with no problem.

 

[ActionableMango]

"Use the Magic Trackpad with your Windows PC"

http://www.labnol.org/software/apple-magic-trackpad-with-windows/14158/

 

[ActionableMango]

I use the Magic Trackpad on Windows XP at work. This is a Windows-only PC (not bootcamp). The following works:

• Mouse cursor movement
• Left-click (physical)
• Right-click (physical)
• Single finger tap (left click)
• Two finger tap (right click)
• Two finger scroll (up/down only, not left/right)
• Double-tap-then-drag (But it's hard to get this right... sometimes just double clicks instead. For reliable dragging, I use the physical click and drag.)

I have no idea about the Magic Mouse. The keyboard will work fine, but I don't know why you want it. There is a wide assortment of USB keyboards and there's nothing special about the Apple one except it has Apple keys on it.

 

[barny]

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Thanks for that guys especially ActionableMango with personal experience of doing this. I'm glad it will work. And by te way the reason I want the apple keyboard is because of it's great looks and it Is also great to type on

 

[ActionableMango]

Wacom Bamboo is a trackpad that supports multitouch gestures in Windows. I imagine it has better support on Windows-only PCs than the Magic Trackpad does.

 

[Volley]

@ActionableMango may you explain step by step what you did to make magic trackbapad working on only windows xp pc?
It doesn't work for me..and I tried drivers extracted from bootcamp drivers.
thanks..

 

[joelniese]

trackpad issue

to ActionableMango:
I have tried a couple of times to connect the trackpad to windows pc, can you layout the process you when through in detail what you did to get things to work correctly. I was able to get the driver installed, bought a bluetooth adapter, etc. but still can't get things to work?

I use the Magic Trackpad on Windows XP at work. This is a Windows-only PC (not bootcamp). The following works:

• Mouse cursor movement
• Left-click (physical)
• Right-click (physical)
• Single finger tap (left click)
• Two finger tap (right click)
• Two finger scroll (up/down only, not left/right)
• Double-tap-then-drag (But it's hard to get this right... sometimes just double clicks instead. For reliable dragging, I use the physical click and drag.)

I have no idea about the Magic Mouse. The keyboard will work fine, but I don't know why you want it. There is a wide assortment of USB keyboards and there's nothing special about the Apple one except it has Apple keys on it.