Enable On-Screen Keyboard in Windows 7

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Hi. You're watching VisiHow, and this is a tutorial on how to enable the On-Screen Keyboard on Windows 7 computers. There are two ways to do this.

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   The first one is to go to control panel

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   To go there: we need to click the "Start Menu" button on the lower left corner of the screen.

   

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   Then click "Control Panel"

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   Once the control panel window opens, we need to go to "Ease of Access"

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   Click it once.

   

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   In this section, click "Ease of Access Center"

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   In the quick access tools, we'll see there is an option for "Start On-Screen Keyboard"

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   That is exactly the button we need to press.

   

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   Press it once, and the keyboard will open

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   We can now close both of these Windows

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   Another way to enable the onscreen keyboard, is to press on the "Start Menu" button, and highlight "All programs"

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   When the program list opens, look for "Accessories"

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    Then go to "Ease of Access"

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    Click it once, and "On-Screen Keyboard" will be shown in there

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    Click it, and the keyboard will open.

    

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    Now we can use this onscreen keyboard instead of the extra keyboard

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    This concludes our tutorial on how to enable the On-screen Keyboard on Windows 7 computers

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