On-Screen Keyboard on Windows XP

Heres a neat function which you may find some use for sometime. Windows XP comes with a built in on-screen keyboard. Basically a graphic of a keyboard comes up and acts like your keyboard, you can use your mouse to hunt and peck around on it. It's perfect for people with disabilities, where it would be easier to use a mouse than trying to type or it's great to use when your keyboard goes kaput. Works also if you have multiple language settings setup on your computer. You will see that the keyboard changes languages as you do, ie Russian language setting will present a cyrillic keyboard.

Here is how you launch it:

* Go to start
* Go to run and type OSK
* Then the keyboard comes on

It's really just that simple. It's best to make a desktop icon for it or a shortcut, because if your keyboard should go out on you, it would be handy to have it. All you do to create the shortcut is to:

* Right click on the desktop
* Click the new shortcut button
* Type osk, click next twice, and there you have it.

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