I struggled throw the whole process. Its hard to use windows without mouse and specially when u don't know the shortcuts to it. only short cuts i know is how to save and how to copy, paste and close the document, other then that i you to get use to it before u use it.

It was a struggle trying to work with my laptop without using the mousepad, especially since I've been having trouble with it for the past couple of days. Fortunately, I've spent enough time on it to know some short cuts such as crl+s to save documents while I'm typing and alt+F4 to close my window. There are a few things that I HAVE forgotten, but I know that if I didn't have a mouse I would still be able to succeed in my mission!!

I was successful in logging into windows, but after that, things got a little tricky. For one thing, I couldn't figure out how to get to the start menu. I'd already accidentally opened firefox with my mouse, something which is extremely automatic for me, and I couldn't figure out how to get from there back to the start menu. The only thing I know how to do without a mouse is Alt-Tab.

-Noella-

Over the past few days I had to use a web downloading service for variety of readings so I had to download alot. Since I always use the mouse it was a strange adjustment for this task having to navigate through blackboard and reserves without a mouse. It was not that you aren't able to it seems just so foreign because I am so use to navigating with the mouse. You start to figure it out with trial and error. I'm sure there are shortcuts to working without the mouse but I did not find them during this period of mouselessness.

I have recently been trying to use the mouse as little as possible, but I find it very difficult because if you can't use the mouse to begin with and you have no manual about key commands it is practically impossible. I don't know how to open any applications without my mouse. Once the computer starts up I am at a loss. The only thing I can think of is Ctrl O (open) but nothing happens. When the screen saver comes on I am pleasantly amused for quite some time but then I start trying to hit every button I know to get something to happen, sheer agony. I don't know where to go or who to ask about anything.
The only thing I know how to do (once I cheat and use my mouse to open the program) is record music on my software, but that is only because I have really studied how to use the software. In all other applicatons I rely almost wholly (word and excel excluded) on the mouse and the POWER it brings. I really appreciate the mouse now, because all you need to remember is point and click, not ctrl-alt-shift-q etc.

I wasn't able to do the full two days since I didn't realize it would be that long til yesterday. I mainly browsed the web and programmed, but it did make me use my computer less.

Tabbing through all the links on web pages was horrible, but I did manage. I had to return to the mouse mainly to determine what shortcuts I could use.

Programming was relatively easy once I learned the shortcuts for it.

The most frustrating part was reminding myself not to use the mouse.

I knew not being able to use my mouse pad was going to be frustrating but I didnt think it was going to be as bad as it was. From the start just trying to get to internet explorer or my iTunes was difficult just because it was hard to see what I was selecting. If I missed it I had to tab through all over again and I was wondering if there is a back tab you could do. Trying to navigate throught this site was up hill battle that I often lost due to me unconsciously going back to use the mouse pad. I dont know how blind people do it and this will definetly make me think twice when designing a web site.

Well...considering that I am probably the biggest "mouse user" EVER...I did not do well with this task. I click everything and without my precious mouse, I was lost. I tried using tab and the arrow keys but I just found myself getting extremely frustrated and unable to reach my destinations. Completing an assignment online that would normally take me approximately 30 minutes, took me one hour. Not only is the mouse easier to navigate with, but much quicker as well. Life without my mouse was torture! :(

I could do everything but it was very slow, I had to tab and use key commands. I found using different browsers changes the experience.

DON'T USE IE, the find in Firefox helps much more.

I use keyboard commands on a regular basis to speed up my every day tasks, so the transition wasn't as difficult s it could have been. I definitely usually use the mouse to click on links, so that was difficult for me. The hardest part was definitely preventing my natural reflexes that gravitate toward the mouse. To make things a bit easier, I decided to use the linux based text browser lynx for a while which was more designed for such browsing.

Not using a mouse was so annoying. Everytime I wanted to click on a link, my hand automatically went to my mouse, so I had to stop myself and use TAB to go to the link I wanted. Just a few minutes without a mouse was insane. Right now, I'm not using a mouse. I had to use TAB to get to this comment box. But when I wanted to scroll up to read the assignment again, I had to get out of the comment box so I could use my arrow keys or Page Up/Down to scroll. Also, I really don't remember how to minimize. I tried Control-M, but Outlook popped up instead. And I had to close it with Alt, File, Exit. I'm using Firefox and I don't know how to go to another one of my tabs. If I had to research and write a report on the computer without a mouse, I would rather go to the library and hand-write the paper.

At first I thought that I was going to be alright without using the mouse, I figured that I would just use different short cuts, and everything would be all right, but I was wrong. It was a lot more difficult then I expected it to be. While studying and looking up stuff for an upcoming test I struggled to copy and paste notes as well as just navigating through the pages and going back to previous pages. I constantly found myself grabbing for the mouse, which was not connected. It proved to be a very inefficient way for me to study for my test, so I had to go back to using it. At least for me, I realized that the computer mouse is a necessity as well as a time saver for me when using the computer and trying to navigate on the web.

I did not like not being able to use my mouse to navigate through things on the computer. It's a lot of trouble using the keyboard to do different tasks such as go to a certain menu option, and it takes a lot of time. It was especially frustrating using "tab" on web pages, because it did not always put the cursor in the right spot or select the proper place that I wanted to go to. Having a mouse makes all the difference, because it makes things so much easier to go to. It eliminates more errors and it also makes using the computer a little less stressful.

I tried not using my track pad on my laptop, but it was frustrating and took a lot of time to try to figure out the keyboard short cuts. After trying to do anything unsuccessfully, a friend showed me how to use function keys to move between windows and get places I needed to go. I had a really difficult time trying to remember all of the short cuts and it took me a long time to do much of anything. Even after I got the hang of it a little bit, I still prefer using a combination of the track pad and keyboard, because for me, it's easier to navigate using the two together and it makes workflow go so much faster.

I never use a mouse anyways (I hate them!) but being without my laptop navpad has been frustrating, especially when I'm in a hurry to do things and I can't remember the key functions. However, this experiment has opened me up to some cool shortcuts that I'm going to continue using, especially in Photoshop. I know if I keep working at using the keys instead of the mousepad everything I do will be so much faster!

Well it took about a million tab hits to get here, but I made it. I've always thought the tab key was underrated, and being without a mouse just made me love it (and absolutely need it) more. Browsing the web wasn't too terribly difficult without a mouse, though pages with a lot of links were very frustrating to navigate. I even got Counter-Strike launched and played for awhile without my mouse. It was the most ridiculously frustrating thing I've done in a while.

Being without a mouse made me realize that we all too often take this magnificently intuitive device for granted. It also made me realize that I should probably stop throwing mine across the room when I get killed in my videogames. The little guy deserves more respect than that.

Terrible... I don't think that after having the mouse at my disposal for a good 90% of my computing life I can ever again not use it. It was okay while I was doing my programming assignments and taking notes for classes, but it was the web surfing and Photoshoping that got me. When I first started to use computers, I used a Commodore 64 and all actions were performed via text prompts and then you grabbed a joystick--that was fine. When I first surfed the web, it was all text-based as well--that, too, was fine. Now-a-days, however, pretty much everything is mouse oriented on the web. The daily reading of USA Today was quite simple, as I could use keyboard shortcuts for just about everything. It was the interaction with Flash-based media that was the problem. I couldn't control Flash videos on sites with simple "tab-into's" and I found myself Alt-F4ing quite a bit with mis-clicks here and there on banner ads. Taking the mouse away from me slowed productivity 40-fold and I don't think I could ever do it again--EVER. I would compare my experience to asking a NASCAR pit crew not to use power tools whatsoever during the Daytona 500...I'm sure Jeff Gordon would give up after his first tire change.

the mouse is an integral part of the computer for me. ALthough i was able to get through the days without using the mouse, it was more of a nuisance and time waster. The mouse is a great shortcut tool and without it makes computers feel as more of a burden rather than being helpful.

Being without the mouse helped me be aquinted with keyboard shortcuts such as tab, alt, ctrl, the F1 - 12's, and etc. After doing this i appreciate the mouse to such a great extent however i was still functional without it. The mouses biggest contribution is saving time and keeping our attention span on the computer.

i do believe i can do anything the mouse does with the keyboard except for right clicking. Some right-click operations i was just able to ignore completely but was in the long run it couldve have been a huge disaster.

The order of buttons matters, so does keeping it on the relaxed side.

When I was tabbing through all the buttons on the page I found myself a lot more focused on reading the text and making sense of it in relation to the links on the site. Really loud in your face links take away from the text, but if you have to tab through them you see whats in between. I got the impression that some sites could use more balance between the relative power the text and links have over my attention.

I'll have to admit that I was unable to go the 2 full days without my mouse. I never realized how much I rely on it. Without a mouse, gaming is out of the question. Even basic tasks such as browsing through multiple open tabs in a browser can cause a headache. I never did figure out quite how to do it. Using the tab button never gives you the option to browse through the tabs in the new Internet Explorer. Using tab also was quite rediculous in Internet Explorer because it tabbed through all the one million browswer options at the top, over and over. I admit that I never new many shortcut/hot keys before this little experiment, but because of this, I looked up Windows hotkeys and now have a better idea how to navigate around while using the mouse less.
It still is nearly impossible to navigate around a PC without a working mouse, but I found it was helpful to be forced to attempt it. I know the first time I got a wireless mouse and accidentally programed it wrong I had to use my computer for 2 days without a mouse and I'll tell you right now I did NOT browse the internet much during those 2 days. Surfing the internet without a mouse is like trying to drive a car without a steering wheel!

wow it's so hard and ridiculous to use just your keyboard. I really had no desire to browse the internet or go to my daily sites because I got frustrated. Because I have no experience NOT being able to use my keypad or mouse, I only knew how to navigate the site by using the up and down arrow and the tab key. When I got to our class site I scrolled up and down with the arrows and when I wanted to change the web address I had to tab over and over again until it led me to the address bar. It took forever because it goes through all the options on the page before going up to the address bar!

I found it very difficult to use my computer without using a mouse. I tried to pull up a cheat sheet that would help me do things on my laptop without using my touch pad. I use Firefox as my browser and open separate tabs within one window. The tab button helped me a lot when moving from one site to the next. I also used the left, right, up, and down arrows to help me navigate. I'm glad I went to this website because it taught me shortcuts like using Open Apple + W to close the window that I was in or Open Apple + M to minimize the window I was in.

Learning these tricks were great, but I still found it difficult to navigate on sites like BankofAmerica.com where you have to enter your Online ID. Whenever I would hit tab it wouldn't highlight that frame for me to enter my account number and sign in.

Here is the website I used that gave me shortcuts for my Mac:

http://www.computerhope.com/ashort.htm