[AT] Drag line engine ID wanted

[charlie hill]

Thanks Mike that is a possibility.  I'm going to try it right now.

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
>>
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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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