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Odd issue. One day my computer is working fine. I hard wired my Comcast internet connection to my computer and turned off the wireless. Next day, the device that received the signal from the internet disappeared. I had to buy an ethernet dongle to enable my computer to be hard wired. Anyone know...

I did. I slowed the repeat rate and changed the repeat delay to long. It seems that the double space tends to occur more often the nearer to the right edge the spacebar is struck.

If I am not careful, about a third of the time I strike the spacebar with my right thumb results in a double space. I have turned down the sensitivity but to no avial. I called Toshiba and they quoted me a price to replace the entire keyboard. Would it be possible to replace just the spacebar?

I delved further into the scan and they recommended I add another 4GB chip or replace the existing 4 with two 8's. Thank you for all your help. I will run the CPU scan just to be sure.

You are right of course, I have 4 GB of ram. I went on Crucial and ran the compatibility scanner and, among others, an 8GB chip was recommended. I take it if you have two slots that it isn't good to have 8 in one and 4 in the other.

Why only 4?

I appreciate the input. I think the best solution for me is to buy another 8 MB of Ram. I won't be running Battlefield 3 or photoshop but 30 tabs of chrome is a possibility. Thanks.

Interesting, when I closed Firefox and restarted Chrome, the physical memory usage dropped to the mid 50's. However after opening and closing a few tabs, the usage began creeping up. Now at 74%, my guess the next stop will shortly be over 80%. I suppose I can always shut down and reopen Chrome...

I will do that.

Windows 7

I have a relatively new Toshiba laptop with 4 mgs of RAM. It is running very slow. I have Chrome and Excel open now and the physical memory usage is at 95%. Granted I have 15 tabs open in chrome but some of the tabs are using much more memory than others, Yahoo mail for instance. Beside changing...