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11-20-2008, 01:53 PM
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About a month ago I bought my first computer device and as of late I have had this funny issue of whille I am typing the flashing bar thing will pop itself in the middle of a sentence or when I am siging in here I will be putting my password in and it will jump and start putting it up in my user name. HELP ! Thanks 
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11-20-2008, 01:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Newark, NJ | | | What browser are you using? Or is it asking for your windows password? |
11-20-2008, 02:01 PM
| | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DudeistMonk  What browser are you using? Or is it asking for your windows password? | Whats a browser ? This happens on microsoft word as well.
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11-20-2008, 02:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Newark, NJ | | | OHHHH!
lol, thats the auto fill in feature...
In word it will try and guess the word you are about to type (usually if its a name in your address, book, your address, the name of your company...something it thinks you will type often)
In your browser (the thing that you use to go on the web), it fills in user names and passwords that it already knows.
These features are designed to save you time, Both can be turned off/modified in the preferences:
For Internet Explorer - Tools>Internet Options>Content>Auto Complete
For word- I'm not sure maybe someone else knows the menu
In either event if you just keep typing the box will go away once what you are typing no longer matches what you have typed in the past. |
11-20-2008, 02:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Kent UK | | | Clean install will fix it for sure...
may not be necessary but when did you last clean install your hard drive?
your computer will benefit if you clean install every year or so, especially if you use it on the net, you don't know what you might be picking up.... |
11-20-2008, 02:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Kent UK | | | or just do what dudiest monk says...
it could be "predictive text" in Word. |
11-20-2008, 03:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Lubbock, TX | | | Is it a laptop? Make sure you're not hitting the touchpad with your hand while you're typing. I do it all the time, it's annoying as hell.
If it's going backwards, it not autofill or anything
The answer to every computer question is not a reinstall...
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11-20-2008, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevor.A ...The answer to every computer question is not a reinstall... | Sorry fruit, most definitely gotta agree!
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11-20-2008, 05:20 PM
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11-20-2008, 05:23 PM
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11-20-2008, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevor.A Is it a laptop? Make sure you're not hitting the touchpad with your hand while you're typing. I do it all the time, it's annoying as hell.
If it's going backwards, it not autofill or anything
The answer to every computer question is not a reinstall... | My answer as well.
It sounds like this is what you're doing Kev.
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11-20-2008, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevor.A Is it a laptop? Make sure you're not hitting the touchpad with your hand while you're typing. I do it all the time, it's annoying as hell.
If it's going backwards, it not autofill or anything
The answer to every computer question is not a reinstall... | Very true..
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11-21-2008, 01:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Kent UK | | | However, a clean install is often the quickest way to solve the more complicated problems - not that this is a complex problem. This is probably just a user error.
This happens all the time - people spend days trying to solve software glitches, delete trojans, wondering why their PC is running slowly - when they could just spend 6 hours or so wiping the hard drive and reinstall the OS and software. |
11-21-2008, 05:25 AM
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11-21-2008, 05:56 AM
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Originally Posted by thefruitfarmer Clean install will fix it for sure...
may not be necessary but when did you last clean install your hard drive?
your computer will benefit if you clean install every year or so, especially if you use it on the net, you don't know what you might be picking up.... | You sound like our server admins. We run windows clusters for my database clusters and their answer for everything is failover and reboot.
To MM: I haven't heard of anything acting up like that, it could be something as simple as a stuck tab key or a problem with the mouse/touchpad. Probably needs to be looked at by a pro..
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11-21-2008, 08:02 AM
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Builder: Valenti Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Staten Island NYC | | Is the computer device you're using a laptop with a touch pad mouse? If so, you may be touching the pad with your thumb causing the cursor (aka flashing bar thing  ) to move while you type. This happened to me. |
11-21-2008, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Trevor.A Make sure you're not hitting the touchpad with your hand while you're typing. I do it all the time, it's annoying as hell.... | Yeah, me too. I disable the touchpad on my laptop and use that little pencil eraser thingie instead.
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11-21-2008, 12:17 PM
| | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | | Would thumbing the mouse pad ( lap top device) whille typing make the cursor thing jump in the middle of sentences ?
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11-21-2008, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by MAJOR METAL Would thumbing the mouse pad ( lap top device) whille typing make the cursor thing jump in the middle of sentences ? | Yep, sure would.
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11-21-2008, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by 60HzRumble
You sound like our server admins. We run windows clusters for my database clusters and their answer for everything is failover and reboot.
| I went for a job as hardware / software support software person.
They said during the interview that the standard answer to an enquiry on a Sunday is to restart the system whilst during the week they would suggest more complex methods presumably to justify their existence. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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