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Emergency Mouse Keyboard Mouse

It has happened to me and as sure as eggs are eggs it is going to happen to you

What am I taking about ? I will tell you the mouse suddenly stops working in the middle of your work.

Worry not you can revert to keyboard controls,

Just use the Alt, Tab and Arrow keys to make and change selections.

However did you know that you can control the mouse with the keyboard ?

It is called Mousekeys and is a Windows Accessibility feature.

On most XP machines you can switch it on straight away using the keyboard shortcut Alt + Left Shift + Numlock

You will be presented with a window informing you of your actions

If you change your mouse pointer can be moved using the:‐ Keypad keys 8 (up), 6 (right), 4 (left), and 2 (down). 1, 7, 9 and 3 drive the mouse pointer diagonally. Key 5 or Enter is used for the Left mouse button

To Right‐click hold down the Minus key on the numeric keypad and press 5.

If the keyboard shortcut doesn’t work you can get to Mousekeys through Accessibility Options in Control Panel.