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Temporary Keyboard lockup

S

socks

Flightless Bird
Hello,

As I'm typing I notice notice my keyboard will lock up. For example I may
type the word "computer" & look at the screen & only see the little "c". The
cursor will be locked up. After about 10 seconds the rest of the letters
appear. I cleaned my keyboard but the problem still occurs. However, as I
typed this message the problem didn't occur. It comes and goes. I can
speed up the 10 second delay by clicking on another web page & then coming
back to my message & the cursor will be blinking fine.

john
 
U

Unknown

Flightless Bird
You have a program running in the background that is taking a lot of system
time.
Look in task manager to see if you can identify it. Do you have virus
programs running? Check for malware?
"socks" <socks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97B7FA64-588E-4ACD-A350-E1ED2CFEB072@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> As I'm typing I notice notice my keyboard will lock up. For example I may
> type the word "computer" & look at the screen & only see the little "c".
> The
> cursor will be locked up. After about 10 seconds the rest of the letters
> appear. I cleaned my keyboard but the problem still occurs. However, as
> I
> typed this message the problem didn't occur. It comes and goes. I can
> speed up the 10 second delay by clicking on another web page & then coming
> back to my message & the cursor will be blinking fine.
>
> john
>
 
J

Jim

Flightless Bird
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:56:01 -0800, socks
<socks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>As I'm typing I notice notice my keyboard will lock up. For example I may
>type the word "computer" & look at the screen & only see the little "c". The
>cursor will be locked up. After about 10 seconds the rest of the letters
>appear. I cleaned my keyboard but the problem still occurs. However, as I
>typed this message the problem didn't occur. It comes and goes. I can
>speed up the 10 second delay by clicking on another web page & then coming
>back to my message & the cursor will be blinking fine.
>
>john


What program are you using to type with ?
 
J

john

Flightless Bird
Hello,

I brought up Task Manager & the only thing that I could see was that I had
two browsers in the task bar (Internet Explorer & Avant). I also ran a
malware application & there is no malware. BTW, this problem only recently
started &, so far, as I'm typing this response, the cursor has not locked
up. Could it be that I have two browsers open that is causing this issue?
--
john


"Unknown" wrote:

> You have a program running in the background that is taking a lot of system
> time.
> Look in task manager to see if you can identify it. Do you have virus
> programs running? Check for malware?
> "socks" <socks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:97B7FA64-588E-4ACD-A350-E1ED2CFEB072@microsoft.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > As I'm typing I notice notice my keyboard will lock up. For example I may
> > type the word "computer" & look at the screen & only see the little "c".
> > The
> > cursor will be locked up. After about 10 seconds the rest of the letters
> > appear. I cleaned my keyboard but the problem still occurs. However, as
> > I
> > typed this message the problem didn't occur. It comes and goes. I can
> > speed up the 10 second delay by clicking on another web page & then coming
> > back to my message & the cursor will be blinking fine.
> >
> > john
> >

>
>
> .
>
 
J

john

Flightless Bird
Hi Jim,

I use Open Office. However, it seems the problem occurs when I use my
hotmail program & try to type an e-mail or reply to an e-mail. It has also
occurred trying to type a response here earlier today. (BTW, this issue only
recently started) However, in my previous response to "Unknown", I had two
different browsers open (I.E. and Avant). I closed one & so far as I'm
typing this message the cursor has not locked up. Any thoughts or
suggestions would be appreciated.

John
--
john


"Jim" wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:56:01 -0800, socks
> <socks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >As I'm typing I notice notice my keyboard will lock up. For example I may
> >type the word "computer" & look at the screen & only see the little "c". The
> >cursor will be locked up. After about 10 seconds the rest of the letters
> >appear. I cleaned my keyboard but the problem still occurs. However, as I
> >typed this message the problem didn't occur. It comes and goes. I can
> >speed up the 10 second delay by clicking on another web page & then coming
> >back to my message & the cursor will be blinking fine.
> >
> >john

>
> What program are you using to type with ?
> .
>
 
S

socks

Flightless Bird
Hi Jim,

I think everything is okay now. I was typing you a response a few minutes
ago using Avant as my browser & noticed the cursor freezing up again after
typing a few words. I opened up task manager & under Processes, the CPU was
running something like 95%. So I had an idea. I closed out Avant & opened
up Internet Explorer & looked at Task Manager again & under Processes the
CPU usage was only about 0-2%. I then typed this message again & the cursor
didn't lock up this time at all.

I guess my question is why would Avant cause this issue?

Hopefully, this was the issue.

Thanks,

John
--
john


"Jim" wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:56:01 -0800, socks
> <socks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >As I'm typing I notice notice my keyboard will lock up. For example I may
> >type the word "computer" & look at the screen & only see the little "c". The
> >cursor will be locked up. After about 10 seconds the rest of the letters
> >appear. I cleaned my keyboard but the problem still occurs. However, as I
> >typed this message the problem didn't occur. It comes and goes. I can
> >speed up the 10 second delay by clicking on another web page & then coming
> >back to my message & the cursor will be blinking fine.
> >
> >john

>
> What program are you using to type with ?
> .
>
 
J

Jim

Flightless Bird
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:31:01 -0800, socks
<socks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>Hi Jim,
>
>I think everything is okay now. I was typing you a response a few minutes
>ago using Avant as my browser & noticed the cursor freezing up again after
>typing a few words. I opened up task manager & under Processes, the CPU was
>running something like 95%. So I had an idea. I closed out Avant & opened
>up Internet Explorer & looked at Task Manager again & under Processes the
>CPU usage was only about 0-2%. I then typed this message again & the cursor
>didn't lock up this time at all.
>
>I guess my question is why would Avant cause this issue?
>
>Hopefully, this was the issue.
>
>Thanks,
>
>John


Have a look here
http://forum.avantbrowser.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=27237
 
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