Windows XP: OE not displaying letters of words as fast as I type them
OE not displaying letters of words as fast as I type them
by lablover - 4/5/08 11:06 PMOE & IE release 6, on Win xp home sp2, Inspiron 1520.
When I type in OE and in this forum they letters being typed are not displayed as fast as I type them. (I'm not a fast typist, either).
The letters are often 4 or 5 letters back from what I'm typing. The typing works, but it's very irratating.
Have virus, and spyware protection on (Trend Micro) and it's never reported a problem found.
Any suggestions?
Whilst not wanting to be alarmist,
by MarkFlax
- 4/6/08 2:19 AM
In reply to: OE not displaying letters of words as fast as I type them by lablover
I wonder if this might be a keylogger at work.
There could be other reasons.
Keyloggers are as the name suggests, small programs that log the keys you press then send the details off somewhere, or store them on the computer for later use.
Tell us more about this computer, eg where is it, office or home, does it have a firewall, (which one?), and what else is running when you are typing? What are the specs of the computer, (Processor speed, RAM size, hard disk size and how much free space on the hard disk). It could just be a performance issue.
Check the Task Manager, (right click the Taskbar, select Task Manager), and check what Processes are running under the Processes tab. You can check most via Google or visit the site below to check each entry;
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
I don't know if your Trend Micro is just an anti-virus or if it also incorporates anti-spyware as well, but you could try 2nd opinions on anti-malware with a couple of online scans.
1] Online anti-virus scan at Trend Micro's own site, http://housecall.trendmicro.com and
2] Online anti-spyware scan at Ewido, http://www.ewido.com
Let them delete everything they find.
Mark
Mark
by lablover - 4/6/08 6:39 AM In reply to: Whilst not wanting to be alarmist, by MarkFlax
I have Spybot, current release, and ran it this AM with nothing found. Then ran Trend Micro PC-Cillan rel 14 provided by Dell, and again nothing found. It contains anti-virus, anti-spam, firewall. I'm also running Windows Defender.
Dell Inspiron 1520, 3 GB of memory, 250 GB hard drive with 96% free, 2.0 memory speed and it's a Core 2 Duo Intel chip. It's on a wireless Internet connection.
I'll try the links you provided, now.
Re: slow typing
by Kees Bakker - 4/6/08 6:43 AM
In reply to: OE not displaying letters of words as fast as I type them by lablover
Go into the processes tab of Task Manager, sort on CPU usage and report the top 10 while typing (name + percentage). Such slowing is usually caused by some other program taking up CPU.
Kees
Kees & Mark
by lablover - 4/6/08 7:26 AM In reply to: Re: slow typing by Kees Bakker
I ran edwido and it found 126 tracking cookies. I deleted them.
The system is averaging 95% free resources available.
Will try other suggestion now.
"The system is averaging 95% free resources available."
by R. Proffitt - 4/6/08 7:30 AM
In reply to: Kees & Mark by lablover
Is that a clue? XP doesn't report such a thing. Back in Windows 9x/ME we would see such but today the resources are no longer limited to the old 64KB chunk.
Bob
Tracking cookies are harmless (for this issue, anyway).
by Kees Bakker - 4/6/08 7:36 AM
In reply to: Kees & Mark by lablover
But you didn't tell what processes used your CPU. Only "free resources", whatever that may be.
Kees
Can't do
by lablover - 4/6/08 7:43 AM In reply to: Tracking cookies are harmless (for this issue, anyway). by Kees Bakker
A cut & paste of resources you asked for.
All I asked.
by Kees Bakker - 4/6/08 7:50 AM
In reply to: Can't do by lablover
Tell us the top-10 processes (ordered by CPU-time from high to low) in the processes tab in the Processes tab of Task manager. And, indeed, you can't copy/paste that. You'll have to type it over into the box.
Mine while I type is something like:
- system idle 95 to 96%
- ashWebSv 0 to 1 % (that's Avast antivirus)
- firefox 0 to 5% (due to my having the 'real time activity' page active, I think
and that's about it. I see no lag.
How about you?
Kees
Found it
by lablover - 4/6/08 11:05 AM In reply to: All I asked. by Kees Bakker
I got Dell support on a live chat and they found the problem.
Thank you all for your suggestions.
Good to read they solved your problem.
by Kees Bakker - 4/6/08 12:13 PM
In reply to: Found it by lablover
Apparently, they ask the right questions and you gave the right answers. That's difficult sometimes on this forum.
Can you tell us what it was?
Kees
Kees
by lablover - 4/6/08 12:37 PM In reply to: Good to read they solved your problem. by Kees Bakker
I don't know what he did. He got control of my PC and started.
I think it had something to do with Adobe active-x controls, as I believe he disabled that. Since then I have visited several web sites that wanted to d'l the Adobe active-x controls. I have not allowed it.
THANKS again for everyone's help.
Slow typing display
by ACMEROCKET - 6/23/08 3:29 PM In reply to: OE not displaying letters of words as fast as I type them by labloverI was able to fix this problem in all applications on my Dell Vostro 1500 by removing pcmservice.exe from the startup list. It's part of the Dell installed Media Experience and can hog the show.
Start>Run>"msconfig">OK>startup tab>uncheck pcmservice>OK.
You may need to tell your Dell not to keep reminding you that you made this change every time you startup in the future
Thanks
by lablover - 6/23/08 3:38 PM In reply to: Slow typing display by ACMEROCKETI got the problem solved by calling Dell support and they found the problem and fixed. No problems since. I consider the issue closed.
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