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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI have a computer problem that has me vexed
it takes a bit of explaining . . .
Right before the problem I was downloading archived files for a radio show I like, I was on the 7th or 8th show download, when I got a little window popup saying a "script has stopped working" and "do you want to stop the script". I get one of these several times a week, and I always click the "stop the script" box and sometimes I have to re-save the picture I was downloading (I download a lot of pics for my own use, I'm an artist), and this is what I did for the audio file. When the window asked me where to put the file, I did my usual, which was to highlight the name of the file (the original name was just some numbers) to the name of that particular show. It wouldn't let me. I couldn't delete it, cut and paste anything on top of it or post next to it, so I proceeded with the download and went in to rename it in the folder where I put it. Again, it wouldn't allow me change it. Then I noticed I couldn't type normally. I tried to type some things into google, and nothing would happen, so I laid on a key and after a few seconds it started to type, but not the key I was holding down. For example, when I type j, I hold on the key, and it comes out, j
It's a Toshiba netbook I've had for about 3 years. I like solving mysteries, but this one I'm not enjoying.: (
ETA . . . when I hold the j key down for example, it comes out like this: J[[[[[[[[
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Sugarcoated
(7,724 posts)No luck
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)when it comes to troubleshooting beyond the basics.
Good luck and hope you fine a cheap & easy fix.
Sugarcoated
(7,724 posts)Odd things have happened after updates, then, mysteriously, things go back to normal. I hope. But until that time . . . I panic a little.
Lionessa
(3,894 posts)Take the battery out for a bit. The replace battery, and reboot. Don't know if that will give you a true re-boot on a laptop, but it should.
Otherwise, have you checked your restore options? Should be able to find a restore point to before downloading of pics.
I'm guessing that it is not likely a hardware issue, like you didn't spill something into the keyboard that didn't seem to cause a problem when it happened but has since dried in a sticky way, right?
Lastly, my daughter recently had a similar problem (keyboard completely quit, or seemed to) on a notebook, took it to trade in when she went to replace it, and they took it into the back for 2 minutes and fixed it. Don't know what they did, but it might be worth going to Staples or Best Buy or whatever computer geeks you like and give them 5 minutes with it.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)Lionessa
(3,894 posts)kaitcat
(193 posts)If you're running XP, you can do a system restore to a date back before the problems started.