Comments on: Emulating right-click in windows under Parallels Desktop

By: Dan J

Dan J — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:14:10 +0000

this is super, thanks to Mark for the technique.

By: Anael Rousseau

Anael Rousseau — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:32:03 +0000

This also work wonders on Windows 7 with the Original Mac Mouse & keyboard. Thanks for this one !

By: seaniepie

seaniepie — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:09:47 +0000

No-one knows how to get the middle button working in parrallised-esktop tho. I manage to get several high end programs such as Eyeon Fusion, Eon Vue and Autodesk Maya working on PD (which, compared with previous releases is a major achievement) but despite several requests Paralysis still havn’t added support for 3button mice which sucks as all those programs require it. What’s so difficult about it??

By: Designer

Designer — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:24:16 +0000

Excellent article! Very helpful, thanks!

By: Suzuko

Suzuko — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:46:58 +0000

mighty mouse + WinXP on Parallels works great

By: Scot

Scot — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:25:37 +0000

First – that two fingered clicking thing is awesome. I’m not a big fan of the one button the MacBook Pro, so this tip came in SUPER handy.

Ok – I have parallels running, but it won’t recognize the scrolling ball on the mighty mouse. I have to pull on the scroll bars which is very annoying. Okay, so maybe I’m just lazy. Either way, I’d really love to have this feature in Win XP on Parallels.

Any help would be appreciated.

By: Rix

Rix — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:36:09 +0000

Sorry, I meant do it in Parallels and it has the same effect in windows as ctrl clicking in Mac OS

By: Rix

Rix — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:35:16 +0000

Why don’t you just press the right apple key when you click? It does exactly what crtl kick does…

By: jmh

jmh — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:12:51 +0000

To help clarify what the last post suggests… if you’re using a mighty mouse or any device with a right click and left click:

In Mac OS, go to System Preferences>Keyboard and Mouse>Mouse settings. You’ll likely discover that the right and left clicks on the mighty mouse have a default setting of “primary.” So this explains why the right click with the mouse doesn’t work at first in Parallels.

Change the right click on the mouse to “secondary” and now Parallels handles right clicks exactly the same as when using a PC.

By: Siznod

Siznod — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:31:34 +0000

When I installed parallels, it was set up to recognize “ctrl+shift” as simulated right click, but if your intel mac came with a mighty mouse, you can set your mouse to recognize touches in a variety of places, including setting either the right or left side as 2nd click, which works exactly the same as right click in windows and ctrl click on mac.