Typing characters stalls and then bursts on monitor

[Bill W]

I hope this is the place for this problem. A friend of mine has a
relatively new dual-core laptop. It functions without a problem except for
one issue. When he is typing characters on the keyboard, the characters
display on the monitor as he types until about 50-100 characters are typed
and then the display will pause for about 3-5 seconds and then burst the
characters he was typing during the pause. It will continue displaying
normally and then pause and burst again. This happens with almost anything
application he is using including Word and while creating an email in
Outlook Express. It even happened when I was trying to type a short phrase
in Google in an attempt to find a solution to this problem. Any direction
you can give me to help find a solution for him would be greatly
appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[V Green]

His system is too busy with Windows crap. Keyboard
characters are being buffered until the system has the
time to attend to them.

Turn off Indexing Service, spell check, etc., all stuff like
that that ties up the system that you DO NOT need.

 

[Bill W]

Thanks for your response. He has a dual-core machine with fast processors
and a ton of memory. I have 3 computers that aren't as fast as his. I
haven't made the performance changes you suggest to any of mine and I don't
experience the typing problem he has. When we see the typing problem, he
may have nothing running in the foreground other than the application he's
using (Word, Outlook Express...). MSCONFIG shows idle time over 90%. The
majority of the time, the characters will pause after rapidly typing 50-100
characters, but can do the same thing after only 10. I don't think the
computer would be buffers only 10 characters because it is so busy -
especially a machine with 2 processors and nothing else running in the
foreground. I hope someone can offer a solution other than turning off
functions and processes. Thanks again for your help.

 

[Bob I]

Perhaps you have Norton Anti-virus scanning for updates?