You use the On-Screen Keyboard in Windows Vista, and you click the Windows logo key and then the TAB key to start Windows Flip 3D. However, Windows Flip 3D does not start.

Yesterday I posted a tip on how to access Vista’s On-Screen Keyboard. If you have the Business, Enterprise, Home Premium, or Ultimate versions of Vista, then you have another option to the On-Screen Keyboard that Vista offers. Called the Tablet PC Input Panel, this program is designed to allow tablet PC users to input information in a few ways, including writing words or characters by hand, or by tapping on an on-screen keyboard. You don’t have to be running a Tablet PC to use it, the functionality is now built into Vista (instead of being a separate version of Windows as XP Tablet PC Edition was). Keep reading →

Your keyboard has stopped working for some reason, and you need to do something before restarting that requires the keyboard. What do you do? Well, Vista has an on-screen keyboard that you can use by just clicking with your mouse (of course this assumes that your mouse is still working). I saw a related tip over at Tweakvista, but their solution was to make a shortcut ahead of time. Great if you’re the type that plans ahead for unlikely situations, but I was more interested in the “didn’t plan ahead, I’m screwed now” scenario. Keep reading →