Ok, so it really doesn’t happen very often, but it does happen. Yeah, drat, your mouse has broken after you used it by accident on top of that peanut butter smudge on your desk. Here’s an obscure yet real windows tool you can use to make your keyboard act as a mouse until you get that replacement. To do this, you push at the same time, Alt+Left shift key + NumLock . You’ll get a pop-up window saying to
1) Use Mouse Keys, click OK
2) Cancel MouseKeys, click CANCEL
3) Deactivate, click settings….blah, blah blah.
When you get the popup you can click the settings button and customize the feature as well.
How many of you knew about this? We all knew about the OSK I wrote about here but not this one!
Kerry is a wanna-be geek who periodically writes on the the AskTheAdmin website. Her favorite website is callcatalog.com which is a reverse phone lookup website that allows you to do a reverse phone number lookup.
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Karl,
I’m impressed I found a new one for you :) BTW, I just added you to my twitter, imkerry2
Cheers,
Kerry
Nice find! Keep ‘em coming.
Thanks for the great tip.
Is there a way to select text for copying and pasting when MouseKeys is active?
Well, I figured that out… Holding down the 0 key while moving the cursor with one of the other number keys will do the trick.
Hitting the 5 key will get you the right-click menu.
Now, I don’t really need a mouse, do I? ;-)