Anonymous Posted on Apr 22, 2013

Keyboard jumps up to line just typed

When typing a document in Word, the cursor will jump to another position on the page. The the new text typed starts going in at the position where the cursor jumped to.

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Sounds like you have a sticky up arrow key,or you have a virus on your comp.Try booting in safemode by turning on your computer and tapping the F8 key while booting,then choose safemode.Once you are in Windows,open the program you are using and try your text document again.If it works correctly,you may have a virus.While you are in Safemode,run your virus scanner,then reboot your computer to see if the problem is solved.If it does not fix it,try running System Restore back to before the problem started.Good luck :)

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Anonymous

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Posted on Dec 16, 2009

SOURCE: trouble with everex stepnote 1500 laptop

This normally happens with the performance of your computer. I need more information like the OS version. Do you type on Microsoft word etc
What is the hardware configuration of your computer etc?

In the meantime as a workaround. try using msconfig (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310560)

Try a clean boot using msconfig
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310560

Try creating a new user account
Also check http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417 (for troubleshooting on performance issue)

Increase virtual memory
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826513

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