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earthshine

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1. I wonder if you have a keyboard problem.

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Sun Jan 7, 2018, 09:35 PM

Jan 2018

I've had the experience of keyboards going faulty and perpetually pressing keys for me.

If the circuitry under your F5 key (or perhaps a ctrl-R combo) is dirty, compressed, or otherwise problematic, it might explain rapid refresh.

You do have a tough problem. <sigh>

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Keeping a log (Post #5) of the frequency of the Auto Refresh problem [View all] UTUSN Jan 2018 OP

I wonder if you have a keyboard problem. earthshine Jan 2018 #1

Thanks, adding info: It's a *new* laptop; never use F5/ctrl-R. Guess I'll just live with it. UTUSN Jan 2018 #2

I was looking at some articles on this, and noticed two suggested causes for this, for Chrome... Princess Turandot Jan 2018 #3

Thanks, will study this tomorrow. UTUSN Jan 2018 #4

LOGGING Automatic Restarts: Did the Disable on Chrome/predict'load. It's still Restarting. UTUSN Jan 2018 #5