From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:56:26 -0700, William Vetter wrote:   
      
   > On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:04:56 PM UTC-4, Michelle Bottorff   
   > wrote:   
   >> William Vetter  wrote:   
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   >> > On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:15:53 AM UTC-4, Michelle Bottorff   
   >> > wrote:   
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   >> > > ..two of my eybord eys eep randomy stopping woring.  Guess which   
   >> > > ones.   
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   >> > > I've mosty been copying and pasting the missing etters, but it's a   
   >> > > rea   
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   >> > > pain. :(   
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   >> > Blow all over the keyboard with your mouth, or with back end of   
   >> > vacuum   
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   >> > cleaner, or with pressurized air if you can.  It is dirt or dust or   
   >> > cat   
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   >> > hair.   
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   >> I wish it was going to be that easy.   
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   >> My husband looked at my unreadable d and e keys, and decided that if he   
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   >> was going to have to take the machine apart to get it properly cleaned   
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   >> anyway (it's a laptop) he might as well replace the keyboard while he   
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   >> was at it.  The operation is slated for next weekend, since he'll need   
   >> a   
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   >> sizable block of time.   
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   > You can try to pry out the two bad keys and clean them and their holes,   
   > scrub them with water and toothbrush.  This will help if there was some   
   > fluid stuck on them, but they are plastic and they snap in, and you   
   > can't do that more than twice, maybe.   
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   > Anyhow, I'm glad to hear you got bad keys -- I was afraid you were   
   > writing the manuscript in elvin language or something. I never know how   
   > to tell people when they do that.   
      
   It is also possible to use an external USB-connected keyboard with a   
   laptop.  I had to do that with a previous laptop, because the keys turned   
   out to be spaced inconveniently close together for my large fingers.  For   
   my current laptop, one of the deciding factors was that it had a full-   
   sized keyboard.   
      
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