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We just got new computers and my keyboard was too "loose" compared to the old one. By that I mean I was getting not just double letters by lines like this: aaaaaall aaaaaaalone by the teleeepeheone Ia wwawait foar ypuar cfall. My husband (my resident computer genius) went to some internal program having to do with the keyboard, where there are measurements you can adjust, try out and set if they're suitable. They deal with intervals between pressing the key and its repetition, and rate of repetition; it takes some fooling around to reach the happy medium between too stiff and too loose. Voila! No more extras--or mich fewer anyway. Since every program is different I can't tell you how to do this but it's doable. Mentioning my sloppy keyboard reminded me of a funny story my uncle told me from his hospital room the night before he died. Finally agreeing to a bypass when the pain became too much for him, he'd gone into the hospital and was given a pair of pajamas by a young nurse. When she left the room he put them on, only to discover the pants came up to his knees (he was only about 5'9"). When the nurse came back, he told her, art lover that he was, "These must have been made for Toulouse Lautrec." She was obviously not listening too carefully, because she assured him, "They're not too loose, Mr. King, they're just a little short!" Cheers, Kathy Kunz