More typos than usual
Bookworm on Apr 10 2007 at 11:39 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ll be the first to admit that, as I slam out posts, I’m a lazy proofreader. You may have noticed more typos than usual, though, and I actually have an excuse: I have a Microsoft wireless keyboard, and for some reason it’s not forwarding to my computer full information about the keys I’m striking. About every tenth keystroke vanishes. I catch most of the mistakes but, since I am a bad proofreader of my own work (not, funnily enough, of other’s), a lot of mistakes are getting through. I apologize.
By the way, have any of you experienced this problem with the MS wireless keyboard and, if so, do you know how to fix it? I’ve check my batteries, which are fine. I’ve also gone online for troubleshooting information, but have only found articles about complete failures to communicate between keyboard and computer, not partial failures.
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I catch most of the mistakes but, since I am a bad proofreader of my own work (not, funnily enough, of other’s)
I think that’s true of most people. After all, technically you are proof reading while typing, and so if something looked all right before to you, it might still look all right if you read it over again just because of how our brain processes familiar data. Another person who hasn’t seen your work, is paying closer attention to “new data” and therefore not only sees it in a new way, but in a brighter light. Slower, but brighter.
Don’t use wireless keyboards, but perhaps the Windows Setting for some of the key repeating and click speeds may be modified for some beneficial results. In Program Options.
I too have a wireles microsoft keyboard and am happy to say I have been problem free. That being said however, typing is not my first language and I am slow. I have found ,at least with the mouse, that if I have an obstruction in the line of site, the mouse will not work properly.
I’ve always thought that if anything would ever go wrong with our keyboard for our desktop, that I’d replace it with a wireless keyboard. Now, I’m thinking not:)
People are always amazed when I tell them that every once in a while, I will unplug the keyboard and take it to the kitchen sink for a good power rinsing. I just shake it dry and plug it back in. I’m not planning to use this cleaning method with the laptop though.
I put my keyboards in plastic wrap that either it came with or ceran clear wrap for laptops.
Hi BookWorm,
Don’t throw away that keyboard! There are many things in the house that can interfere with your wireless products. The biggest offender in the keyboard realm is bad batteries.
Other areas of interest are proximity to other wireless devices, most notable wireless phones. It could even be the fan in your computer.
I’d do the following:
1.) Replace the batteries.
2.) Move the wireless receiver to a different location if at all possible; make sure it is plugged into a USB 2 port for maximum efficiency. Try a different USB port in any event.
3.) Do you put other wireless products always next to the receiver, cell phone? Wireless? If so try putting them in a different area that isn’t on a horizontal plane with the computer.
4.) Upload and install the latest drivers (very important)!
5.) Resynch the keyboard with the computer.
I have many wireless keyboards and all work without a hitch. You should be able to nail this problem down by trial and error.
If the keyboard is new and you still can’t figure out the issue then perhaps the keyboard is defective. Exchange for a different model if all else fails.
Trip
I have a Logitech wireless keyboard that performs better than the MS one. I also have trouble dropping letters here and there (drives me CRAZY), and it’s virtually always when the keyboard is on my lap, below the level of the desk - I suspect the “line-of-sight” problem referenced by rockdalian.
Don’t be put off, wytammic, I use nothing but wireless anymore, and only the MS model gives me (very little) trouble. When I move the receiver, and do some of the other things recommended by Terry, all is well again.
Wireless is Wonderful!
Trip (comment 5) nailed it with the wireless phone advice. I never connected my keyboard’s failure with the fact that I got a new telephone. The whole problem got exacerbated when someone (husband? house cleaner?) moved the two closer together. Everything is working out very well now and all future typos will be entirely my fault.
and all future typos will be entirely my fault
You’re a better woman than I — I’d just continued blaming the keyboard:)
moved the two closer together.
Frequency interference then. They’re trying to shout over each other. I think you don’t like that Book, when people shout over each other.
I never connected my keyboard’s failure with the fact that I got a new telephone.
One of the ways I solve computer problems is try to time-index the problem in relation to anything new that might have occured. It helps troubleshoot and isolate the problem down to programs, actions, and events. But some things are like either random or they’re just inexplicable.