Slow response when typing or highlighting text

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Adam

Hello,

I just bought a brand new Compaq with a 2.5 gig celeron,
384M of memory and a cable modem internet connection.
However, when I type text in fields on various web pages
(such as yahoo) or highlight text, there is a delay betwen
when I type and when the text appears. Also, when I use
the scroll bar, it lags. This does not happen on all web
sites. For example, I can do all of the above things on
google with no delay or lag. Can anyone help me fix
this?

I bought this computer so my wife could work from home.
But she works through a web based interface and the lag is
making it difficult for her.

Thanks,
Adam
 
Adam said:
Hello,

I just bought a brand new Compaq with a 2.5 gig celeron,
384M of memory and a cable modem internet connection.
However, when I type text in fields on various web pages
(such as yahoo) or highlight text, there is a delay betwen
when I type and when the text appears. Also, when I use
the scroll bar, it lags. This does not happen on all web
sites. For example, I can do all of the above things on
google with no delay or lag. Can anyone help me fix
this?

I bought this computer so my wife could work from home.
But she works through a web based interface and the lag is
making it difficult for her.

Thanks,
Adam
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Delayed Response When Editing Internet Explorer Forms and Outlook Express
May Take a Long Time to Start
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=251787
 
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Delayed Response When Editing Internet Explorer Forms and Outlook Express
May Take a Long Time to Start
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=251787

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Thanks for the link to the article, but it didn't help.
The article says that it applies to Win 98 and IE 5.0-
5.5. I'm running IE 6 on Win XP.

Anyhow, I'm still having trouble typing text in fields,
highlighting text, and using the scroll bar on some web
pages (e.g. yahoo mail).

The delay I am experiencing can be explained as
follows: When I am typing quickly, the letters I am
typing do not appear in the field on the web page as I
type. After a few seconds, the letters suddenly
appear all at once. I experience similar problems
when highlighting text. I place the cursor on the
place where I wish to begin highlighting. I then move
the cursor over the text that I wish to highlight.
Nothing happens for a couple of seconds, then suddenly
the text appears highlighted.

Although I experience this problem on some web pages, I
am not experiencing it in the window I am typing this
message in. There is no delay while typing, or
highlighting. However in a seperate window with yahoo in
it, I am experiencing the delay.

Any advice?

-Adam
 
Adam,
Do you have any of Yahoo's Toolbars installed?
Start there = uninstall, reboot reinstall ... (if not)
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Adam,

I recently had problems very simialar to yours and tried all the
things suggested by others who have posted to your problem.

I downloaded Spyhunter / Spybot Search and SpyRemover (SpyRemover only
identifies potential parasites, etc. ... you have to buy the program
to remove found problems.)

About a week ago I ran Spyhunter and Spybot; let them identify
potential problems and then removed the items they found. No
correction of the problem.

Today I did two things:

1. I followed this advice at:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1390577,00.asp
which tells how to remove a potential trojan horse: Qhost-1. (I don't
think this was the fix but who knows.)

2. I reran Spybot again and had it remove everything it found (just
like I did a week ago.) I rebooted and lo and behold this frustrating
problem was gone.

Maybe this will work for you also.

Good Luck,

Larry
 
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