If your cursor freezes, but your keyboard stays alive, particularly in System 7, you may want to try shareware like RecognizeMouse, Escapade, or YesNoCancel. The RecognizeMouse application tells the Mac to try harder to use your pointer. The other two are control panels which let you make choices in dialog boxes with the keyboard.

Most of us are so mouse-bound that we forget that a Macintosh can also be operated without a mouse using Easy Access or the freeware KeyMenu control panel.

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