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In response to: Dell Laptop Slow / Lagging / Delayed Keyboard Response

I bought Inspiron9300 17'' laptop in 2005 and am in India now. Two years ago, 3 vertical blank bands appeared on the screen. The fault was isolated to the LCD screen. Since it was in Warranty, DELL India promptly sent their rep with a new LCD screen and connecting cable and changed them. Was so thrilled with their after sales service. That turned out not very longlived. About a month ago a blank vertical band of about 4" has come on the right extreme of the screen! However the 4 years warranty has expired in Oct 09. DELL wants me to replace the same items now at a hefty cost!! Is the life of the Screen/connector only 2 years? Any expert can guide me is there any other technical poroblem with the Video card/power supplies etc. which could cause this? Thanks a million.

In response to: Dell Laptop Slow / Lagging / Delayed Keyboard Response

THANK YOU!!

Who'd have thought disabling "Instant Office" (now there's an ironic name) would fix this?

Mike

In response to: Dell Laptop Slow / Lagging / Delayed Keyboard Response

a massive thanks to the guy decent enough to share his solution to a mind bending problem!!! this problem has been on my v1700 for a long time should have looked at this thread earlier!!!

many thanks

In response to: Dell Laptop Slow / Lagging / Delayed Keyboard Response

Thank you very much for ur help..me too faced same prob..i came through this page,then i fallowed the procedure as u told..i unchecked some of auto run applications..then my laptop working properly..

thank u very much ..

In response to: Dell Laptop Slow / Lagging / Delayed Keyboard Response

Hey all, I didn't have this exact problem but a similar one. I bought my daughter a Acer laptop so I could get on my computer and it was her birthday. At first it looked like the keyboard wasn't responding. I looked for a lock. No lock except it seemed the keyboard would respond to some functions. I looked for a conflicting process (service) but everything there seemed normal. I rebooted the computer and the password typed find, but after the login the same behavior occurred. Apparently the problem software related and not a hardware issue. I then noticed if I held down a key for about over second and a letter appear. I couldn't find a controls that would slow the keyboard response this long. Rather than reinstall the OS to get around the problem, I decided to create a new profile and viola! I'll try to find the exact problem but for now I'm letting my daughter use a new profile.

In response to: Dell Laptop Slow / Lagging / Delayed Keyboard Response

I was also facing the same problem as my input was displaying in a gaps of some seconds or soo. It disturbs a lot while working. Thanks a lot for such great tip.

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I just received my second letter(the first from a George Dodd and the latest from a Charles Anderson) stating I owed taxes on a car my son had owned in Greenwich, CT. I find it interesting that all the towns are in CT. I've called them three times (which I have documented) using the number on the letterhead and got an answering machine. In the letters, they stated that they had tried to contact me "on a number of occasions to no avail." If that were true, I would have the calls on my answering machine. Automated calling machines that charity or political organizations use will usually hang up if there isn't a response immediately, but if they called in person, I should have received the call. This all doesn't seem right to me.

Reading the responses in the forum is helpful and supportive.

In response to: Dell Laptop Slow / Lagging / Delayed Keyboard Response

Thanks so much for the tip. I used autorun as you stated and it worked. Hopefully it will be all. Thanks again!