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Randy Stiles - 29 Feb 2004 21:26 GMT

What causes a delay between keyboard entry and the text showing up in the dialog box for Windows Messenger? Sometimes the delay is up to a minute between the actual keystroke and the text displaying. My wife is getting really annoyed with the delay and I've tried everything I can think of. I've checked background processes during her messenger sessions, nothing seems to be taking an extreme amount of resources from the system

system: pentium 2Ghz w/448Mb ra
os: windows X
modem connection @ 44kbps

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Jonathan Kay [MVP] - 29 Feb 2004 21:38 GMT

Greetings Randy,

You may just need to upgrade the version of DirectX you have installed:
http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=141D5F9E-07C1-462A-BAEF-5EA
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> What causes a delay between keyboard entry and the text showing up in the dialog box for
> Windows Messenger? Sometimes the delay is up to a minute between the actual keystroke and
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> os: windows XP
> modem connection @ 44kbps

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