In other words, don't send your laptop back yet, try something else (I've read on here to try re-installing the ASUS ATK software?).

It seems that if Windows has some kind of conflict with the right click button and some other device (like the new SSD drive I installed) then swapping the left/right buttons in Windows via software doesn't prove anything, except that the right click button still has some kind of software config conflict. This tells me that the hardware is functioning properly. I spun up VirtualBox on my machine (to try it in another OS) and both trackpad buttons work just fine. I did this and the left button functionality did not work on the right button - might seem like that proves it's a hardware problem, but that's not the case.

You could try swapping right/left functions with Smart Gesture and see if the left button can activate the right click function, and see if the 'broken' right button can activate left click - that would isolate the problem to a physical button problem vs a strange avoidance of supporting right click function. Wow, that sucks, it could be your trackpad failed.

Right click won t work