I THINK I narrowed my problem down to GoBack. GoBack also really slows down a PC. I knew it was too good to be true and I was about to ask the list if anyone knew of anything that worked just like GoBack (GB), yet did not have the horrible side-effects of GB.
I ran benchmarks recently and they were HORRIBLE compared to pre GB benchmarks. This is even with GB not running at all in the background! I disabled it from the interface, and tests were better but still not up to the original results. So, I uninstalled it, and the benchmarks are all back to the previous levels! Also, after uninstalling it I don't have this delayed typing anymore, so evidently it was GB that was also causing that! I believe there is 3 places where you change the cursor blink rate/speed. One as you probably know is in the Control Panel, but with some there is an area for mouse, AND one for Keyboard so both must be checked out. It depends on the mouse type and software if you have one under the "Mouse" icon. The other area is under "Accessibility Options" in the control panel (there's also a different area under the "Accessibility Wizard" for blink rate, may or may not the be same thing), and the final area is in the BIOS. Some mobo's BIOS' have a character repeat/blink area. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Clint, Well, this is a switch; me telling YOU what might be wrong. Ya know, Clint, I'm not a computer whiz like most of you here seem to be, and I've been having this problem too for a good while, but, nearest I can figure, when this happens, the puter is probably busy doing something. It happens to me a lot more on line than off and when it does, I can almost always count on it being because someone in my buddy list is signing on or off or someone is about to start an IM with me. The one that's bugging me is: why is it that when I had my original hard drive the cursor moved a lot faster than it has since I got the replacement drive? I'm DEAD sure I made NO changes to the cursor speed in either case. In fact, I seriously doubt that I even knew that the cursor speed COULD be changed before I got the replacement drive. That's because when I first mentioned it to a puter techie, he suggested that I go into the area where I can change the speed, and then change it. I did, and so did he, and nothing changed. If I remember correctly (it's been a few years since I've been there), the speed is set to full. Every great once in a while I'll notice that the cursor shifts into high speed all by itself for a few minutes and then goes back to medium speed again, where it seems to be now. On the old HD, it only took about 3 seconds (if that) for the cursor to go from one end of a line to the other using only the cursor direction buttons. Now (and I just now timed it) it takes 6 seconds to do that. Dale In a message dated 8/1/2004 4:46:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, orpheuscomputing.com writes: > Hi all, I'm having this annoying problem with "delayed typing". It only > happens once in a while, not very often yet is extremely annoying. First it > only did it on OE, then it did it once while typing a URL in the address > bar, > and also in Notepad. It usually does it ONLY WITH THE FIRST WORD in a > document or where ever I want to type. > > This is hard to explain but I'll try. I watch the monitor screen when I > type > (since I know how to type). When this happens, I'll try and type > "typedword" > and when looking at the screen all I see is for example "typ" even though > I've completed typing "typedword". About 2-3 seconds will go by, then in an > INSTANT the REMAINING previously missing characters of "edword" will just > appear all at once! So, it's like "typ[DELAY]edword". This is only an > example, it sometimes may be earlier or after the first 3 typed characters. > > I've wasted many hours on this issue and can't find anything about it by > searching other than this issue with things like Word, Word Perfect, Lotus, > Apple computers, etc. which is not applicable in my case since I don't use > them. I tried turning off "SMART Monitoring" for my HD's. Power Scheme is > set to "Always on" and NOTHING is set to power down or hibernate, suspend, > etc. DirectX is the latest version and patched, and dxdiag shows no > problems. I've also tried changing the location of the pagefile. I have > 512mb (2x256mb) dual channel DDR so it's not short on memory. CPU is a P4 > 3.4ghz HT/800mhz bus 512mb cache so it's not underpowered. My main HD is a > 10,000rpm WD740 Raptor, so it's not due to a slow HD. Same keyboard is > being > used, it's cordless but with new batteries and I've tried changing channels. > No "sticky keys" are being used. No software has ever been used nor needed > for the keyboard. > > This is new format and fresh install of XP Pro, and I use IE as my browser. > This happened before M$ updates, so it's not them causing it and obviously > they didn't fix the problem. The exact same hardware, software &drivers are > installed as before. > > Thanks for any info, > -Clint ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
