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I seem to have a rather frustrating keyboard stutter problem which occurs intermittently when using my windows 10 PC. Most recently I have noticed it seems to occur after I've left citrix running on my PC for a few hours. When I type, whether it be in a notepad file, running a command from the windows+run, typing a URL in a browser there are occasions where it seems as though half my typing goes missing. It will either ignore a whole host of characters (stutter & pause) and leave some or start printing additional characters so the words make no sense. It is not resolved by restarting my PC. It will literally occur on the attempt to type my profile password at times.

I have run perfmon on various traces including the basics:

%Processor time Bytes Total/Sec (on all network adaptors) %Committed bytes in use %Idle Time (Physical disk)

I'd be quite surprised whether I'm suffering from a typical resource problem because my computer is fairly over spec for my requirements.

Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 3.4 GHz Installed RAM: 16 GB System Type: 64 bit x64 based processor. Windows runs off a SanDisk SDSSDXP480G SSD. Windows 10 Home edition

The above said I feel like logically speaking there must be a resource bottleneck somewhere causing the issue however I have yet to be able to find one that completely marries up with he problem. Only one counter thus far ever seems to max out and that is a Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller_2 which is currently maxing out and seems to have no impact whatsoever on my typing.

I have been reading various forums suggesting solutions like:

1) Uninstall/reinstall java. 2) Disable all your browser extensions. 3) Check performance related issues (pagefile). 4) Update windows & make sure you have all patches installed.

I have implemented all the above, the most recent being JAVA. Unfortunately given the intermittent nature of this issue I may not know the results for a while. Java has been the most recent change so we can see if this resolves. 2 & 3 & 4 did not appear to be the solution yet.

As I attempt solutions I will keep track of them here and hopefully I will find the solution.

Thanks

Phill

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So this turned out to be my keyboard. I had a wireless Logitech keyboard K750. Essentially there must have been some intermittent interference preventing the signal from reaching the bluetooth receiver.

I switched over to a cabled keyboard and I have not had the problem since. I guess it seems obvious to me now so definitely worth checking this first if anyone else suffers this problem.

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