Freeware to protect your hands from overusing mouse and keyboard

Get ArsClip, a most useful program that monitors your clipboard, saving recent items you copy, even letting you store some items permanently to have them always available for pasting – such as signatures, etc. Using ArsClip or other clipboard managers will help you avoid writing the same text many times, or re-select and re-copy again and again.

Instead of browsing (using your mouse or keyboard) to the same locations every day, e.g., to folders where you keep your work documents, etc, use a utility that will memorize your favorite locations to let you open them at once. Such a utility is  the Favorite Launcher.

There are programs that require (sometimes meaningless) input repeatedly, without letting you store your answer. Some shareware programs may also pop up dialogues urging you to register or buy, etc, and you are forced to click buttons such as OK, or Later, or Cancel, everyday or several times a day. You can automatically click buttons with ClickOff. Whenever such a dialogue appears, ClickOff will click the button you want it to click, automatically: you won’t have to use your mouse or keyboard to click these buttons.

If you repeat every day some mouse and keyboard actions that need a lot of clicking or typing, you can have them memorized and recalled with Mouse Recorder or with Auto Clicker Typer.

Many times you will need to scroll a window that is unfocused, clicking on it to select it, then scroll, and finally return to the window you were working on before. You can avoid all of this by using a utility that will let you scroll a window just by bringing your cursor above it, such as Kat Mouse.

If you are a user of Microsoft Word, you know that in order to scroll a document without moving the cursor, you need to move your mouse to the scrollbar at the right. You can avoid this and scroll a Microsoft Word document, without moving the cursor or mouse, just by a keyboard shortcut, as TheFreeWindows showed in another post.