[rengewwj]

My problem is EXACTLY like "Rudolp" posting of 16 March 2009. My only addition to his problem is that I don't have the luxury of switching to Firefox or Opera or anything like that because many of the technical sites that I need to work with specifically state that they only accept access with IE. Even worse, a wiki engine that I'm using (TWiki) has important features that don't like anything but IE (although it strangely works better with Linux, as opposed to Windows.)

I'm running IE-7 with all updates. This is an Exchange machine using Trend Micro Office Scan with all of the latest updates automatically pushed to me. Also, this happens to me, as Rudolp describes, but with a T1 connection (so this is not related to too little bandwidth.) Both Trend and Spyware Doctor have been fully run this week. There is nothing detected on this machine.

I am in Houston, working on setting up a rather large wiki, running on a server in Chicago. The keystrokes that are missed can occasionally get to the point where I can sit and hit the same key, very deliberately, 3 or more times before the character appears. Normal touch typing is out of the question.

Oddly, the worst of the behavior comes and goes. It never goes away, totally, but gets worse and worse at times, until I have to type like a Line-O-Type operator, if any of you are old enough to have seen one of those. This is typing with a cadence where you can almost time yourself by calling out "one - and - two - and - three ...," pausing at each "and;" striking a key on each count.

I have also shut down all other software to see if I could stop the hesitation. Nope. It isn't other software running.

I have watched the Task Manager for something that is stealing processor slices that might cause interrupts. Nope. There are no regular events happening and the processor usage percentages are zero to maybe 5%, with a mean of probably 1%. The Page File Usage is 784 MB.

Any ideas?

I'm ready to scream.