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Thread #126083 Message #2798440
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
29-Dec-09 - 10:11 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Comptr pauses after each letter stroke
Subject: RE: Tech: Comptr pauses after each letter stroke
Artbrooks, I looked at Control Panel and there is no Ease of Use icon displayed.
I tend to think that the pook-pook and repeat delays may be associated with a setting intended for ease of use by the disabled, but I don't find it.
Robomatic, the choices in Control Panel/Keyboard are limited, and there is nothing there (that I can see, at least) that relates to signals coincident with keystrokes. Changing the keyboard repeat and delay choices make no change in the refusal to accept repetitive strokes without long delays. See below, however.
SRS, the pook-pook is definitely not just a physical sound from the keyboard. It seems like a generated signal. Since modern computers don't have an internal speaker, as they once did, I assume the sound comes from the external speakers. I don't think I said "it slows down", although it certainly slows my effective use when it refuses repeat strokes.
I did turn off the computer and reboot, things have now gone from bad to worse. I seem not to have the repeat-refusal symptom any more. However, I now have a LOUD marimba pattern which repeats
like this:
BUNG BUNG
buh-buh-bung/ \bung! buh-buh-bung/ \ bung! (ad nauseam)
I can't tell whether I would have the (only relatively) inoffensive pook-pook in the absence of the marimba pattern.
Dave Oesterreich