ec2-3-239-90-61.compute-1.amazonaws.com | ToothyWiki | RecentChanges | Login | Webcomic Start ->Programs ->Accessories ->Accessibility ->OnScreenKeyboard. Handy if you can't use a keyboard for whatever reason. It's there on WinXP... can anyone confirm presence on other Windowses? Or equivalents for Linux etc.
Not seen it on Win9x. Many ShareWare versions exist though. --Vitenka
If you unplug the keyboard and restart the computer you get the windows onscreen keyboard, at least I got it a couple of times under win95C when I had a flaky keyboard. I wouldn't recommend it though. --Jumlian
Er, if you unplug the keyboard before boot doesn't the computer tell you and refuse to continue until you hit F1? --ChrisHowlett
Mine didn't, but it was a 1998 vintage PII (266) from China and so might not have been that clever (given how spectacularly it finally exploded last year, I think it was probably made in a fireworks factory). Also, the problem was a flaky keyboard in my case, and it wasn't unplugged, necessarily, but the keys didn't function in any manner and windows decided on boot-up that the mouse was the sole input device. There is a third possibility, that the OSK was part of some weird driver + useless stuff package that came with the flaky keyboard, but that kind of implies that the company responsible had little faith in their own product... :-) --Jumlian
There be BIOS options to fix that. Which yes, you have to do before the keyboard breaks. --Vitenka