Typing delay When I type any text in any software package there is a significant delay before the text appears on screen. This is very frustrating. What is causing this delay? When I am typing online my words don't come up until like 5 seconds after I am typing. It is fine when I am not online. Please help it is very frustraiting. There is a delay when typing anything into the computer. When typing, it can sometimes take a few seconds for each keystroke / mouse click to register on the screen. Sometimes it will lag and then suddenly catch up if I hit no keys at all. This has become extremely frustrating. Lately this has also been affecting the time it takes for certain sounds to play, for programs to open, and for the copmuter to shut down (hours once). I have 896mb of RAM. I have run disk defragmenter many times and even anti-virus software. I don't ever have very many programs open, and if I open Task Manger, ther are about 50 or so processes going on at once - and I don't recognize most of them. Could this be ther problem? Can anyone help me? hi, the problem is that i have to depress the keys on the keyboard of my desktop for about 2 seconds for the letters, numbers or functions to appear, if i type normally nothing comes up, can you help please!