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[Laszlo]

I see similar issues in my Vista PC: in IE7 input boxes of websites seem to react too slowly, and not all typed characters get deleted by hotstrings. Sometimes the first letter of the abbreviations remains. Other applications, like MS Word, Notepad, MultiEdit still work OK.

[susimenz]

Thank you very much for that very quick reply, I very much appreciate this. UUnfortunately, this comes up in every application I have, even in Notepad, Word, Edit++ and so on.

I am really stuck with this - why did it work without any flaws for more than a year, and now things have turned down so dramatically. I wish I could find the bug, I think I have done literally every trial and error approach I could think of.

Again, thanks
Susi

[Laszlo]

Have you tried "SendMode Input" and "#Hotstring SI"? Maybe your defaults have changed.

[susimenz]

Yes, I had chosen that mode explicitly in the script. Also by adding the SI to the #Hostring commands, things haven't changed.

I am running out of explanations....

It's a pity, as this was so much better than any other script I had been running all of the time. So much superior to the built-in spellchecker from MS.

Cheers
Susi

[Laszlo]

With the Task Manager you could check if there is a background task running, eating up CPU cycles. Indexing the disk, background disk defragmenting, antivirus scanning can all slow down your PC. Of course, a virus or other malware could also be active. Even the zero configuration utility (periodic search for wireless networks) makes web applications to slow down. Too little RAM (less than 1GB for XP) can also be responsible. If the disk drive developed bad sectors, Windows switches back to a slower access mode, slowing down everything (a check for errors could mark the bad sectors and prevent these problems). Even a badly fragmented disk, or the lack of free disk space slows down everything (clean up and defragment the drive)...

[susimenz]

I might have found the issue - I am not yet sure and don't want to claim success yet, but I am typing these sentences here without any of the first letters being shown twice. Even the word where it most often happened doesn't seem to be an issue anymore (please apologize that I am typing it here multiple times):

you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you



It was something I never thought about, and only your suggestion to look at the process explorer triggered an idea of mine to look at my processor via a software called CPUID as well. And then it came to me: when we purchased the computer about a year ago, my bf did slightly overclock it by 3-5%. That never was any problem anywhere, but maybe the computer is aging and thus doesn't like that too much anymore.

Consequently, we put all overclocking down to the normal speed of CPU/Bus etc, and ..... Tadaaaaa.... No more problems!!!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH INDEED! I hope that this was really the driver, but it looks very promising so far.

Cheers & Kisses
Susi

[ahknice]

Hello guys. I downloaded auto correct ahk from http://www.autohotkey.com/download/AutoCorrect.ahk. Is it correct to think that you have put in one file entries from Microsoft Office autocorrect list and OpenOffice autocorrect list, etc. under Common Misspellings - the main list? It must be tough to sort out this list as I'm sure there are repeats. Also I'm wondering if you have this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines. I saw it was mentioned but not sure if it was considered.

Well the reason for my post is because I found Lazlos script integrated in this script. I found from Lazlo that for this to work

[Montu]

I tried this with Word2007 but it didnot create any spell.ahk file on my desktop

please help

[Guest]

Hi,
Is there a standard process other than the forum to submit modification requests to the autocorrect script?

e.g. I noticed what I think is a bug in that when I want to type "developers", the autocorrect script will mistakenly fix it to be "developrs". I can make the change locally to the :*:develope::develop section, but that doesn't help others.

TIA,
Dan