How to Use Right-Click on an Intel Mac With a One-Button Mouse

For Windows users, the right-click functionality of a mouse is synonymous with accessing context sensitive menus. But Apple Macintosh computers don't have a right-click function. If you're a Window user switching to a Mac, you're probably used to the right-click feature and ready to tear your hair out on the Mac's lack of this feature. However, you need not despair as there's a workaround for right-clicking on the Mac with a one-button mouse.

Things You'll Need

• Just your intel Mac. If you use boot camp to run windows. You need down a small software. So you need internet, too.

Instructions

1. When running the Mac OS X, right-click by pressing the "Ctrl" key and "Mouse" button simultaneously.

2. When running Windows under Mac OS X, right-click by pressing the "Ctrl" key and "Mouse" button simultaneously.

3. If you use the Boot Camp application to run Windows, download the Apple Mouse utility (rhdesigns.browseto.org/applemouse.html). After installing the program, right-click by pressing the "Ctrl" key and "Mouse" button simultaneously. Exit the program by pressing the "Scroll Lock" key.

Tips & Warnings

• That's all.

• If your windows program have some hot key function set up as "Ctrl"+"mouse button", it may have conflict.

References

• Apple Support: Mac 101: Using Windows on Your Mac via Boot Camp

Resources

• Apple Mouse Utility