Slow response to the keystrokes

[Zeke]

If the characters don't appear on the screen sometimes for several letters, do I have a keystroke tracking virus? I mean I can barely type 20 WPM. I'm used to seeing the characters there as fast as I can go. Working OK right now. A minute ago it was a word behind. Reminded me of an old Brother typewriter.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

That happens to me with Google Chrome quite frequently. What a terrible love/hate relationship I have with that browser...does everything I want but is slow as molasses and horribly unstable.

Don't know if it could be a virus for you or not.

Sometimes if the CPU is heavily utilized (virus scanning, disk indexing, etc) it can cause laggy response to your inputs.

[sc_rufctr]

Re boot the bugger...

[azasadny]

You may need a new keyboard...

[mnewport]

Happens to us when we're using our google business mail account. It's irritating, and I'm pretty sure it's not the computer because it happens to pretty much every employee dealing with email.

[Zeke]

Wow. Good vibes here with Google Chrome, but seems like a lot of people don't care for it.

[John Rogers]

Well Milt, here are several links to check to see if their steps can help any. One thing I found with chrome is that is connects to "mother" and that seems to be a spy or update sort of thing? I would suggest trying with the internet disconnected to see if that helps? You can still run a browser to see if the issue persists. I would also suggest downloading a copy of the program Process Explorer and see what is running on the computer, especially any programs that might be doing an "update". For example some that popup on mine is the Divx updater (after a video convertion), Quicktime updater(????), HP printer updater(????), Chrome updater, Windows Updater(set to manual), and others. I have ALL of them disabled but somehow they still come along now and them.

Good one here:
Recently Internet Explorer 8 has been running slow, sites freeze and - Microsoft Answers

Make sure this is NOT configured as it will slow things down.
How to Repeat Key Strokes | eHow.com

Another good one.
Google Groups

[john70t]

On that updating tangent:
When we first got the Android tablet, we somehow used almost 8GB in only one week.
Cost an extra $30.
Neither of us watched Redbox or YouTube often.
After everything was turned off, data usage returned to normal.

I also used to have Quicktime on the computer, and would manually ctrl/alt/del kill all Apple QT and updating processes (since there wasn't an option to turn it off), but it would somehow restart itself like a virus. It got uninstalled.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by john rogers

I would also suggest downloading a copy of the program Process Explorer and see what is running on the computer,

That was not what I thought it would be. I have always wanted to manage the Task Manager. That program left me scratching my head. If someone would write a program that took all the processes and identified them in common terms and what they did, I'm sure I could "kill" half of them.

Since I don't have but .75 GB memory, that would help me immensely. Or I need to break down a buy a used computer that was made within the last 5 years.

[jyl]

I think break down and buy a new used machine. < 1 GB DRAM is very (very) marginal today.

[John Rogers]

Good lord Milt, no wonder things are so slow!!!??? The idea behind Process Explorer is to let you see the things you can not see with Task Manager such as what those things named "svchost.exe are doing, how many copies of Chrome are actually running and are any of them running other programs? The idea is to look at what is running, then search the net and find one of the several sites that explain things and stop the ones you do not need. P-E also lets you kill things that Task Manager will not......

Maybe if you posted a screen shot of the stuff showing up in Task Manager we could help a bit better? Hummmmm