
Option 2 – Use SharpKeys To Remap your Pause Key This is a quick and effective tip if you only very rarely use the Pause/Break key, but if you use it often (more than a few times per day) then you will probably want something a little more convenient and move on to the second option. Simply load up the OSK and click on the Pause/Break key while accessing the windowed application and it should trigger the Pause/Unpause and allow you to go about your business. If you are in a program or a game, just go into windowed or minimize mode, click on your Windows button -> run and type OSK. Yes, Windows comes with OSK or On Screen Keyboard, this cool application popups up and sits on top of any other application and can send signal to other applications as if it were a full keyboard. This is probably the easiest solution for most people and you just bypass the missing Pause key by using the Microsoft Windows On Screen Keyboard.

Option 1 – Use On Screen Keyboard to access This article presents you with 3 solutions to the problem of missing the Pause key on your keyboard and it all depends on how much effort you want to go through and which solution you want to use. Many games pause with the Pause/Break key and use the same key to unpause the game, for games like Age of Empires III when you load a saved game the game defaults to being paused and you have no way to unpause and play the game without figuring out how to hit the missing Pause/Break key on your keyboard.

Mostly two types of people use the Windows Pause/Break key and these are developers/programmers and gamers. Thanks to the Dell Inspiron 1545 missing the Pause/Break key on the keyboard I had to do some research myself to find out how to work around and remap the break key for Windows 7.
