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Comment on Fix slow keyboard on Dell Inspiron 1501 by Seba

Seba — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:29:32 +0000

Gracias desde Chile!
(thanks from Chile!)

Comment on Fix slow keyboard on Dell Inspiron 1501 by shinta

shinta — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:41:55 +0000

thanks a lot Paul, you save my life

Comment on Fix slow keyboard on Dell Inspiron 1501 by David

David — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:45:22 +0000

Worked. Thanks for the time saver.

Comment on Fix slow keyboard on Dell Inspiron 1501 by Andrei

Andrei — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:48:43 +0000

It works ..Thank you very much.

Comment on Fix slow keyboard on Dell Inspiron 1501 by Johan

Johan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:01:31 +0000

Hello, the battery thing worked. Now my 6400 works perfect again. Great thanks!

Comment on Fix slow keyboard on Dell Inspiron 1501 by Kamil

Kamil — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:08:22 +0000

Paul, thank you so much for this solution!
It helps.

Thank you.

Comment on Fix slow keyboard on Dell Inspiron 1501 by Cyril

Cyril — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:14:31 +0000

My neighbour had the some problems on his inspiron 1501. The time lag using the keyboard and regular ‘ hang’ of IE and/or system. I removed the add-in and the battery (completely dead). Both symptoms gone!

Thanks!

Comment on Fix slow keyboard on Dell Inspiron 1501 by Fidel

Fidel — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:47:47 +0000

Phew !!! I spent 1 day opening my 3 year old laptop up (for the first time), dusting it, reinstalled Win XP OS, and somewhere in between while re-installing the drivers, I got the same problem again ! Thanks to your post. I should have figured this out myself (Considering that the text entry on the windows login window was never problematic I should have figured out that the problem is definitely with some process that comes into existence after logging in !!!) Thanks again

Comment on Fix slow keyboard on Dell Inspiron 1501 by Bob

Bob — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:44:41 +0000

Thanks soooo much for the great assistance!!

Our old Dell Inspiron 1501 had the same horrible keyboard lagging problem. Was driving me nuts – figured it was a keylogger or something.

Disabling the ati hotkey polling service did the trick!

The battery was also dead, so I pulled that and things improved even more. So, the 1501 has some strange hardware issue where the laptop cannot fully bypass a dead battery.

We will replace the battery and keep using the machine. It makes a fine knock around laptop for web, tv watching and email.

Thanks for the great help!!!!!

Comment on Fix slow keyboard on Dell Inspiron 1501 by Dan

Dan — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:48:15 +0000

The tip to remove the old battery saved me! So simple! That’s why you gotta love Google. After hours of trying to solve the problem, it took me 2 minutes to find the tip, try it and solve it. Fantastic.