NeatMouse

This tiny (396KB) download could save you a lot of trouble if you’re using a wireless mouse and its batteries suddenly die and you have no replacement batteries handy.

Or how about when you install Windows and you don’t have the right mouse drivers installed and that fancy mouse won’t work? You need to download drivers but how the heck are you going to do that without a mouse (oh we could show you how but that’s another tip for another edition of InfoAve Premium 🙂 )?

Here’s what the developer has to say:

NeatMouse is a small tool for Windows that allows controlling your mouse cursor via keyboard.

This is very useful when your physical mouse is unavailable …
If you haven’t installed its driver yet, and Windows was unable to do this automatically.
If you use a wireless mouse and its battery is low so you need to charge it.
NeatMouse is also comes in handy when you need high precision in mouse pointer moving. It allows setting pointer moves accuracy up to one pixel.

Okay….now if you’re a desktop user you can leave the NeatMouse configuration as it is — it uses the numerical keypad, which is great for desktops. But if you’re a laptop user — like TC — then you’ll want to avoid the numerical keypad if your laptop doesn’t have one. Of course you have that darn touchpad but TC hates his — he’s a MouseMan 🙂 But you could do without NeatMouse on a laptop since you could use your touch pad to navigate around until you got new batteries. But I’m just saying you can use NeatMouse on a laptop too — but it’s really made for desktop users who don’t have touchpads and not for anti-touchpad people like TC.

Here is the way TC configured his NeatMouse application:

You can get NeatMouse from many places — we got ours from SoftPedia . The program is free from spyware/malware/bundles/malware. It comes out with a clean bill of health from VirusTotal — and from Cloudeight. When you download — think before you click. SoftPedia has many ads which say “Download” but you’ll not get NeatMouse if you click ’em. The download link to NeatMouse is there on the right — here’s the direct link just in case you can’t find it on their site.

NeatMouse works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)