Editor’s Note: Apple Magic Trackpad is a wonderful device that is only restricted to Mac OS X. If you plan on using it on Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), you will have to follow the long hectic process of downloading and extracting Bootcamp patch, finding and renaming Trackpad Bin file to .exe format and finally installing the driver. Rather than following this difficult process, we have hosted the Trackpad Windows drivers for you at the bottom of the post
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Now that you have Apple Magic Trackpad running on Windows 7, you will be disappointed to know that the default Mouse properties does not work. In short, you cannot customize the speed or gestures of track pad in Windows. This is where Magic Track pad Control Panel comes in. It is a brilliant tool that allows you to set the tracking speed, double-click speed, and scrolling speed of the track pad, and can be used to change both one finger and two finger gestures.
Under One Finger Gestures, you will find options to enable/disable Tap to Click, Dragging, Drag Lock, and Secondary Click. You can choose Bottom Right Corner or Bottom Left Corner position for Secondary Click. Under Two Finger Gestures, you will find options to enable/disable Scroll and Secondary Tab.
To start using Magic Trackpad Control Panel, first download the controlpanel1.zip file from the developer’s page and extract it. When done, open padset-0.3.exe file and then finally open the Trackpad Control Panel file in the same folder. It will launch the Magic Trackpad Control Center. When closed, it will sit in the system tray and can also be launched at system startup, with or without being minimized.
Please remember that these steps will be important:
- The Boot camp driver must be installed. But it seems only to work with all functions using the Microsoft Bluetooth stack.
- The Microsoft Net Framework 4.0 Client Profile must be installed.
- Unrar the files and start Trackpad Control Panel.exe
You can download the beta version of the control panel here.
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