Monday, January 11, 2010

Use On-Screen Keyboard for Virtual Machines running within Mac OS

In case you are looking for the "Print Screen" button or some other buttons such as the "Page Up" or "Page Down" buttons when running a virtual machine (such as one of the Microsoft Windows operating systems), this is what you can do.

On Windows XP Pro (which I am running on VMWare's Fusion 3 on Apple's Mac OSX), you can do the following:

      Click on Start => Accessories => Accessibility => On-Screen Keyboard

You will then get the following window that pops up.



As you can see, it will take up some screen real estate, but will give you back some functionality that you may have lost with a different keyboard.

I will post an entry showing some other options for screen capture (still and video) on the Mac OS.

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