{"id":1662,"date":"2011-04-30T09:13:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T13:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2011-04-30T09:13:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T13:13:50","slug":"trouble-typing-on-windows-7-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/trouble-typing-on-windows-7-laptops\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble typing on Windows 7 laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gene has trouble typing on his Windows 7 laptop<\/strong>
\nWhile typing on my Toshiba laptop, without warning, the type \t\t\t\tbegins appearing in another part of the sentence. When I look up \t\t\t\tat the screen, I have a mish mash sentence. I spend more time \t\t\t\tcorrecting than typing! Any solution to this problem?<\/p>\n

Our answer
\n<\/strong>EB says: <\/strong>Mine used to do it all the time, and I \t\t\t\tdisabled some of the touchpad features and its fine now. He \t\t\t\tshould go in and adjust the settings – culprits tend to be the \t\t\t\tones that let you scroll by touching edges of touchpad (that is \t\t\t\tprobably why he all of a sudden appears in a different spot) and \t\t\t\talso disable drag and lock feature as this can cause this too (a \t\t\t\ttouch of the pad just right can cause you to go back or forward \t\t\t\ta sentence, a line, or a word).. needing a reboot should not be \t\t\t\ta cause or a fix. something makes you move the location of the \t\t\t\tcursor, and its the mouse pad.<\/p>\n

If you’re having other problems with typing text – TC’s \t\t\t\texperiences may help too:
\n<\/strong>
\nTC says: I have a Dell laptop running Windows 7 and I’ve had similar \t\t\t\tproblems. Sometimes the type will not appear when typing then \t\t\t\tsuddenly it will all appear at once. \t\t\t\tThere are three things I’ve found that cause this:<\/p>\n

1. A browser is open with a lot of tabs open and there’s a \t\t\t\tscript running in one of them that is either hanging or which \t\t\t\thas stopped running. Solution: Close all open browsers or reboot \t\t\t\tyour computer.<\/p>\n

2. The laptop is overheating. You should always make sure the \t\t\t\tair vents at the bottom of your laptop are clean and \t\t\t\tunobstructed. Sometimes we use our laptops by setting them on a \t\t\t\tsofa or a bed or some other soft surface (even our laps) and \t\t\t\tthis partially blocks the air vents on the bottom. Solution: \t\t\t\tShut down your computer for 10 minutes then restart it. Try to \t\t\t\tremember when using your laptop to place it on a smooth, flat \t\t\t\tsurface to ensure sufficient airflow to the inside of the \t\t\t\tcomputer.<\/p>\n

3. I use my laptop very often. In fact, my Windows 7 laptop has \t\t\t\tbecome my main computer lately. Before I go to sleep at night, I \t\t\t\tcheck my email and then put the computer in “Sleep” mode. Many \t\t\t\ttimes I’ve awakened in the morning to find the computer never \t\t\t\treally went to sleep at all. It was restless I guess. In any \t\t\t\tcase, I seldom reboot my computer. But even Windows 7 needs to \t\t\t\tbe rebooted very few days. Yes you can leave it running for two \t\t\t\tweeks or more – but I’ve never gotten very good performance out \t\t\t\tof Windows 7 if I’ve gone more than 4 or 5 days without \t\t\t\trebooting. In every case of the mysterious missing words when \t\t\t\ttyping – rebooting my computer always fixes it.<\/p>\n

EB has covered the “jumping text problem and I’ve covered the \t\t\t\t“invisible and suddenly appearing” text problem. \t\t\t\tWe hope this helps you, Gene, and others who are experiencing \t\t\t\tsimilar problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gene has trouble typing on his Windows 7 laptop While typing on my Toshiba laptop, without warning, the type begins appearing in another part of the sentence. When I look up at the screen, I have a mish mash sentence. I spend more time correcting than typing! Any solution to this problem? Our answer EB says: Mine used\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[784,951,1047,1046,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}