[AT] Drag line engine ID wanted

[charlie hill]

I've thought about that Howard and try to be very careful not to touch it 
but still it could be the problem.  My old notebook had a similarly placed 
touch pad and I never had a problem with it.
I think what is happening is I am hitting the function or control key with 
the side or palm of my hand and then the next key stroke opens a shortcut 
that does something I don't want to do.
However, I'm not used to using the secondary keyboard functions, don't know 
they work or how to disable them so I'm not sure.  All I know is it is a big 
pain.  I touch type, not too accurately sometimes but at a fair speed so 
when it happens, it happens so fast that I can't react to it.  Sometimes 
I'll be typing and all of a sudden the cursor is somewhere else in the 
paragraph or maybe even in the address line.  Sometimes half a paragraph or 
the whole copy turns blue, meaning it has been selected for some action but 
I don't know how it's happening.

Charlie

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From: "Howard Fleming" <hfleming at moosebird.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 10:25 AM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Drag line engine ID wanted

> On 11/17/2010 08:34, charlie hill wrote:
>> Hopefully one day prior to my throwing this new notebook computer in the
>> river, I will figure out why it decides to send e-mails while I'm still
>> typing them.<snip>
>
> If you have a touch pad on your laptop, I suspect that might be your
> problem (ask me how I know.... :o).  Just brushing the top of it is
> enough to cause interesting problems while typing.
>
> Howard
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