Two Windows XP Boot Camp Issues And Solutions

I had a really annoying issue come up after setting up Windows XP on my MacBook with Boot Camp, and installing some essential software I could no longer right click (two finger touch), or tab to click, because the Boot Camp service was not running.

At first, I went to the Control Panel and opened Boot Camp from there, once I did this I had to enable the trackpad settings I wanted, and everything was fine, until I restarted, at which point I would have to go through the whole process again. So after a few reboots to convince myself that was a dead end, I took a look for the Boot Camp executable on my C Drive, and found it at C:\Program Files\Boot Camp\KbdMgr.exe, but when I tried to run it, I could see it running in the Task Manager, but it was not working at all.

So finally I gave up, and uninstalled Boot Camp, then reinstalled Boot Camp, and after the reinstall reboot, I got a couple errors, and my Ethernet Controller device no longer had a driver.. The good part however was that the Boot Camp service was running again, and after I enabled my trackpad settings, and rebooted, it continued to work.

To deal with the Ethernet Controller driver, I installed the D:\Boot Camp\Drivers\NVidia\NVidiaChipsetXP.exe from my MacBook Mac OS X Install DVD, and I was all done.