NeatMouse Portable

There are several methods through which you can control your computer, and technology is quickly evolving, with devices once only met in fiction becoming closer to reality than ever. Even so, the mouse and keyboard are going to stick around for a long time and applications like NeatMouse Portable put all functionality into a single device, the keyboard.

As the name suggests, you can take this version of NeatMouse wherever you go by simply storing it on a USB Flash drive. More advantages mean that the target PC's health status remains the same, while system resources are the least of your worries.

The main window is responsible for presenting the application's features in an intuitive manner and it does. Various fields need to be filled in with hotkeys through which you take control of mouse movement and buttons.

Activating the application's functions doesn't cut off connection to your mouse, but rather extends it to the keyboard. Multiple profiles can be created and saved, but there's no way to quickly switch between them, besides bringing up the main window and selecting from the corresponding drop-down menu.

Hotkeys can be attributed for moving your mouse horizontally and vertically, as well as diagonals. Left, right and middle buttons also benefit from keyboard extensions and so does scrolling up and down. Although not a major inconvenience, it would have been useful to see more buttons.

You really get to appreciate what the application has to offer if your mouse is fault, with a neat implemented feature that makes it run at startup. In case you don't want to make any changes, it quietly sits in the system tray.

Only a few seconds in and surely you activate the function, at least out of curiosity. What needs a little work is the emulation, because it's done sequentially, requiring you to either rapidly press direction buttons or hold it down until speed is increased. We expected a little more fluent movement, but it's an issue that can be easily overlooked.

All things considered, we can safely state that NeatMouse Portable is indeed neat. You can easily create more profiles depending on what keyboard buttons you use, keep it on a removable storage device and define hotkeys for all directions and buttons every common mouse is capable of performing. It's just the right solution for a faulty mouse, as well as notebooks and laptops with bad touchpads, taking little space and a few system resources, thus being worth at least a try.