Cursor & Keys Cease Functioning


  1. Apefinger
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    Windows 7 home 64 bit
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    Cursor & Keys Cease Functioning


    Hi, my cursor disappears after a few seconds, likewise the keys just stop typing at anything from 5 seconds onwards, as I use my laptop (Acer 5733) mainly for forums this is very frustrating because I look at the keys whilst typing, so I can type a lot that just doesn't appear on the screen & has to be done again.

    I have to left click with the mouse to continue typing or scrolling.

    The laptop has a dual boot system with Ubuntu & it works fine on that so it must be windows & not the laptop itself,( oddly enough it seems fine on here, but some forums seem better than others bizarrely.)
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  3. matts6887
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    Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit
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    Do you know off hand how much ram is in your laptop? I only ask because I have had that same issue with my prior computer running xp; and it turned out it was a lack of enough available ram. Usually if that happens sometimes it can in fact be a lack of ram for what you have open and if there are other programs open then that can affect it as well.
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  4. Apefinger
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    Windows 7 home 64 bit
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    Thanks Matts, you may well be onto something there, Windows seems to demand a lot more of everything than Ubuntu, the fan is on almost constantly on windows and barely ever on Ubuntu.

    I have one of those CPU meters & its reading 67% for RAM with only firefox browser & thunderbird mail open, but I do tend to have a lot of windows open at once (10 +).

    This laptop only has one 4gb ddr card, I might upgrade to a matched pair.
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  6. matts6887
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    If i were you; and if i could afford it; i would definitely max out the ram if you can; that way you will have more available resources to work with because yes; windows does use quite a bit of ram with all the background services that it uses etc.
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  7. Layback Bear
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    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
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    matts6887 is correct Windows 7 does like ram but if set up correctly Windows 7 will run great with 4 gig of ram.

    Could you show us these using this tutorial.

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