Enable keyboard shortcut mouse in Windows 10

It happens again and again that the radio-controlled mouse no longer works due to a faulty driver or due to dead batteries. Fortunately, with Windows 10, the mouse can be controlled via the keyboard in such a case. How to use this rather rarely used feature correctly, you will learn here.

Key combination to activate the mouse in Windows 10

With the keyboard mouse, you can use the mouse pointer in Windows 10 via the arrow keys without restrictions. For this, you need a keyboard with numeric keypad. To start the keyboard mouse, press the key combination [Alt] + [left shift] + [Num], making sure that the numeric keypad is enabled.

How to control your mouse on Windows 10 with the keyboard

The easiest way to remember the keyboard shortcuts is to memorize the positions of the digits on the numeric keypad, for example, the digit [4] on the left side.

• Number pad [4]: mouse to the left
• Number pad [6]: mouse to the right
• Number pad [8]: mouse up
• Number pad [2]: mouse down
• Number pad [5]: Mouse click left
• Number pad plus sign [+]: double click left
• [Shift] + [F10]: mouse click right

For more details on how to use the keyboard mouse on Windows 10, check out this article.