[AT] Drag line engine ID wanted

Mike Maynard mmaynard at rochester.rr.com
Wed Nov 17 10:10:45 PST 2010


Depending on your email application the key combination Alt-S will send the
email...

Mike

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM, charlie hill
<charliehill at embarqmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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