[AT] Drag line engine ID wanted

[charlie hill]

That appears to be the case on mine Mike.  I'm not sure how I'm accidentally 
hitting the alt key,  maybe because it is right beside the space bar.  I'll 
keep watch on it.

Thanks

Charlie

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From: "Mike Maynard" <mmaynard at rochester.rr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 1:10 PM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Drag line engine ID wanted

> 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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