When typing an email message on my laptop computer, sometimes a paragraph in the message I am typing will disappear or delete, and I am not hitting the delete key, what could be causing this problem

What type of email account do you have? GMail? Yahoo?

Others have probably had the same problem. I should be able to help you once I know what kind of account you have.

Hate that. You might want to try hitting ctl-z right away. That's the keyboard command for undelete. My guess is that you're using a laptop with a mousepad. If so, you might be touching the mouse pad unknowingly and causing it to select text, then you're deleting it. It can happen so fast you might feel like a magician using slight-of-hand.

First of all, don't type emails while driving, it's not safe and you should always keep your eyes on the road!

Second of all, emails shouldn't just "disappear" when you hit a bump in the road while you're typing. You probably hit some sort of key combination during the shock which deleted your email.
You could try and login to your mailbox directly as outlook express is just 3rd party software to help you get your emails. For instance if you're using Windows Live Mail or Gmail you could just go to the website, login and check if your email is still there. However, this will depend on your Outlook Express settings. Some of these programs will delete the email from your mailserver in order to keep it from getting full.

Hope this helped!

make sure your palm does not hit the mousepad.

Hi Laurie
Select an email to delete
move down the list by e.g. 5 messages
Hold Shift Key Down
Select last message in group of 5
All messages in a row will be selected.
Hit DELETE KEY
They get placed in deleted items in case you wish to recover later.
OR
Select an email to delete
skip down list one or two
Hold APPLE Key (Cmd Key)
Select next message
continue down list
Press APPLE Key just prior to clicking email message
This will allow you to randomly select from a list
Just hit Delete Key when ready
These Keys apply the same principal in many programs on the Mac
You can do the same with a directory in any window.

Good Luck
Trevor

Two things that may be wrong here. You may have a power supply problem which requires a replacement and the other is a keyboard problem. Sometimes when the keyboard is defective, certain keys continue to be depressed and therefore forces the computer to process those commands. Therefore, slows down the computer.

Most of the time you can recover the message by hitting ctrl + z. the curser diapering may be a software glitch or a setting somewhere, and I do not have an explanation for the curser moving by its self except maybe accidently touching the sensor with your wrist, they use the heat from the part of your body that touches them so it is very easy to accidently touch it and not realize.

did you tried to clean the inside of the keyboard coz sometimes the dust is the cause why some characters not working properly.

Does it do anything weird when not in use?