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I have a late 2012 MacBook Pro dual-booted into Windows 10 using MacOS Boot Camp. Every time I boot into Windows, I have to enable these Boot Camp Control Panel settings to enable trackpad 2-finger scroll, right-clicking ("Secondary Tap"), and "Tap to Click":

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Since I use a Lightning-port Ethernet adapter which disconnects at least once a day (more often twice), I have to reboot my laptop quite frequently (since Lightning-port devices in BootCamp cannot be recognized again after they've disconnected, unless you reboot).

So automating these settings would be fantastic for me. I'm actually quite stunned how little automated mouse movement software/Windows settings automation seems to be discussed by the general populace.

And yes, I've tried multiple times re-downloading & installing the latest BootCamp drivers for my hardware. (Side-note, the screen brightness keyboard controls no longer work after upgrading BootCamp from Win7->Win10 either)

I know it's a shot in the dark with little hope for a real solution, but I'm open to any advice. Thanks!

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    have you tried with Autohotkey?
    – Mikhail V
    Commented Jul 19, 2020 at 3:19
  • @MikhailV - You were right -- It was possible. Thanks for the push in the right direction. It was an utter nightmare of inconsistencies, conflicts, and unexpected behavior to get there. But was nice to come to a solution in the end. I spent the last 13 hours automating not only this, but using AutoHotKey to fix the lacking brightness keyboard shortcut issue as well...Will post solution when I wake up at 7pm or whatever (It's 11AM now...I was too stubborn to go to bed until this was finished)
    – velkoon
    Commented Jul 19, 2020 at 16:58

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Ok I scripted a solution for myself using AutoHotkey that ticks all the boxes in my original question automatically on login.

It also implements a script that re-enables the F1/F2 brightness adjust keys.

I posted the AutoHotkey script and a setup binary on my GitHub in case it's useful to anyone else:

https://github.com/wad11656/Restore-Boot-Camp-Brightness-Keys

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