IE8 missing keystrokes repeatedly

[sysdawg]

I have IE8 on 3 PCs: a brand new PC with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 (OS

installed at Lenovo factory, core2 duo 2.54 ghz, 4gb), and 2 older desktops

that were upgraded from XP to Windows 7 Home Premium 32. All of these PCs

share a common problem: when typing in the browser, be it hotmail, gmail, or

whatever, maybe one in 20 keystrokes is simply missed (I'll try to type

'because' and instead 'beause' will show up, for example). I know the

problem is IE8, because this happens ONLY in IE8, not in MS Word, or other

apps. Does anyone know of a fix, please? On another forum I saw, this seems

to be an issue others have had, and the only suggested solutions seem to be

to rollback to IE7 (not an option for me I think, because these were clean

installs of Windows 7) or to use Firefox or some other browser (again I think

not a good option as I understand there are issues with using Hotmail, which

my wife uses).



Thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to help.

 

[Donald Anadell]

"sysdawg" wrote in message

news:BEC41F9F-BD09-4375-9E9A-87DE2F4FFDC1@microsoft.com...

>I have IE8 on 3 PCs: a brand new PC with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 (OS

> installed at Lenovo factory, core2 duo 2.54 ghz, 4gb), and 2 older

> desktops

> that were upgraded from XP to Windows 7 Home Premium 32. All of these PCs

> share a common problem: when typing in the browser, be it hotmail, gmail,

> or

> whatever, maybe one in 20 keystrokes is simply missed (I'll try to type

> 'because' and instead 'beause' will show up, for example).



> I know the

> problem is IE8, because this happens ONLY in IE8, not in MS Word, or other

> apps.



What troubleshooting steps led you to conclude..."I know the problem is

IE8"?



> Does anyone know of a fix, please?



Does the problem persist on any of these machines if IE8 is started in No

Add-ons mode?

iexplore.exe -extoff



If not, then try troubleshooting which Add-on is causing this issue:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/07/25/678113.aspx



Good luck,



Donald Anadell







> On another forum I saw, this seems

> to be an issue others have had, and the only suggested solutions seem to

> be

> to rollback to IE7 (not an option for me I think, because these were clean

> installs of Windows 7) or to use Firefox or some other browser (again I

> think

> not a good option as I understand there are issues with using Hotmail,

> which

> my wife uses).

>

> Thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to help.