Why does my computer skip/not register my keystrokes?

SaturnGrl

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I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop with Vista. When the computer starts up, everything works just fine. After a while, in Word, Internet pages, and e-mail my computer starts to skip letters as I type making my text look like a monkey was dancing on my keyboard. I have to go back and type one letter a minute, LITERALLY, to write a full correct sentence. This is extremely hindering and aggravating when it comes to typing college homework and even work related documents.
Clearing my internet Cache does not change it, not to mention that idea is redundant because this is effecting my non-internet software. Restarting the computer does fix it for a short while, but it starts up again later, and there must be abetter method instead of me having to restart my computer all the time.

And I know it is not due to "typing too fast". I know what the typical mstakes for that issue look like (ex: what i sthis), and mine are nothing like that. As an example of the missed keystrokes, here was a recent reply I was making to a friend via a chat:

"I sometimestae a break from myintene ad TV ad tr t get oudoo more often."

The sentence I was trying to write was;
"I sometimes try to take a break from my internet and TV, and I try to get outdoors more often."

As you can see, about half of the keystrokes are missing, including whole words, spaces, and punctuations.
The only program that registers all my keystrokes is my Notepad regardless of my typing speed. But that can get tedious having to type in Notepad, copy/paste it to Word, Spellcheck, and/or copy/paste it into my Web Browser.

Can someone PLEASE help me identify what is causing this and why this is happening?
Or should I just dump vista and go with Windows 7? Or does this issue happen with Windows 7 as well?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba
Welcome
Three things to check in order of priority

Go to search type device manager
Check the keboard drivers. Make sure they are up to date and no yellow warning markers by them
Run a full and updated antivirus scan
Download and do the same with malwarebytes
Try with a clean boot
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

Try in another user account, make sure it is not some sort of account corruption.

Post back with results

EDIT Try to test with another keyboard

Its not a Vista Issue.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hewlett-Packard SR5019UK
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 processor 3800 + 2.40GHz
    Motherboard
    M2N68-LA (Narra)
    Memory
    2.50GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    nVidia GeForce
    Sound Card
    Realtec ALC888 Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17" LCD Monitor
    Hard Drives
    160 Gb Usable Hard Drive
    Other Info
    HP G56 Laptop Win 7 64bit. 4Gb Ram DDR2's. Hitachi 450Gb Hard Drive. Pentium(R) Duel-Core CPU.
Have you looked at Control Panel,keyboard,speed.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo Thinkpad T400
    CPU
    Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53GHz
    Motherboard
    LENOVO 64734VM
    Memory
    2.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 531MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family
    Sound Card
    Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15 inch
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 800
    Hard Drives
    1x 180GB Intel 530 series SSD
    1 x 120GB Hitachi 5400rmp
    1 x 650GB Western Digital Elements 5400rpm
    1x 1Tb Western Digital Elements 5400rpm
    Internet Speed
    Medium for New Zealand
    Other Info
    Weakest part of my computer is the graphics chipset.
    Only ever used a laptop.
    Also use USB Freeview TV Card
    Lenovo Docking Station
    External Speakers
    Other bits a pieces as needed
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