Using your keyboard as a mouse by using MouseKeys
Contributed by risherz 
Tagged: Windows You can also use your keyboard as a mouse. This can be very helpful when your mouse isn’t working properly, or if you want to have some fun.
1. To activate mouse keys all you do is press Alt+Left shift key (the one below the caps lock key) and the Num Lock key.
To deactivate just press the above combination again.
All you do is use your numeric keypad to move the mouse pointer.
Here are some tips that might improve the Mouse Keys experience:
- You might want to set your options to something like the following (to change the options just double click on the mouse icon in the systray and click on settings)
1) Select ‘Hold down Ctrl to speed up Shift to slow down’ (this might be helpful if you want to go to a point quickly with your cursor)
2) Change the option to ‘off‘ where it says ‘Use Mouse Keys when NumLock is:‘ (this way you can use your numeric keypad to key in numbers)
And here are the functions that you can do with the Numeric Keypad:
5 = a left click on your normal mouse
Press 0 and navigate the pointer= Selecting the text in a normal keyboard
Pressing * or - and then pressing 5 = right click on your normal mouse (to use 5 to perform the left click action press the / key).
To scroll up and down you can either use arrow keys or the Page Up and Page Down keys. You can also use the spacebar to get to the bottom of the page.
There are other combinations as well that do the same tasks as the ones above so I haven’t mentioned them. You are going to discover after playing around with the numeric keypad for a while.
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Anonymous said on March 19, 2009
if u press alt+ctrl+delete
then open the task manager.
Anonymous said on August 27, 2009
thanx dude my mosuse is not working and this trick helped me a lot ………. thanx to u and ur gusz…………………….plz keep posting such interesting POST…………
thank u again….
Anonymous said on September 4, 2009
Thanks for the help let’s you still use the computer after the mouse stopes working atlest till you get a new one
Anonymous said on January 2, 2010
It’ Rocking…..
keep doing the good job….
Anonymous said on February 4, 2010
thank u very much for the support.
HisNameIs said on February 24, 2010
Sweet. This computer doesn’t have a mouse, so I had to get a little creative, you know?
Anonymous said on April 27, 2010
I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO RECTIFY MY MOUSE ON MY ACER LAPTOP, FEW HOUR AGO A FRIEND WAS PLAYING eMACHINE GAME BUT KNOW I CAN’T CONTROL MY MOUSE PAD TO DO SOME THING, TEXTING FROM MINNA NIGERIA.
Rahul Singh said on May 31, 2010
Nice tricks …………………………………………………….. Thank u.
Mubasher Faiz said on June 16, 2010
very nice recipe. my mouse has been lost and i want to carry on work. this is very informative web site.
Kf said on June 18, 2010
Very helpful. Thank You.
wasim said on June 19, 2010
ya it’s very easy when v no mouse
Ravindra Singh said on July 26, 2010
This is too good its woking very good …………………….
Bunty said on August 29, 2010
Thamx a lot may you have many more….
Ed said on October 10, 2010
never knew saved me some money for my wireless setup in the lounge….cheers
Kkk said on November 2, 2010
nice
Shailesh said on February 14, 2011
v good
Kazuyuki said on March 30, 2011
whoa! sweetness!! no more annoying “click-click-click click…” sounds.
hridi said on September 30, 2011
Nice but it is very slow