can anyone help me by explaining how i can stop my laptop writing by iself in hotmail and word, it is driving me mad!!!!! please post any info, thanks

turn off your win xp speech regcognition program....

is that the narrator? i cant remember where is.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/columns/moskowitz/02september23.asp

Random words and characters mysteriously appearing on the screens of
some Windows XP and Office XP users are not the work of phantom hackers
or a sign that users' systems are possessed by demons. It's just
Microsoft's voice recognition system running slightly amok, the company
said.
In recent weeks, several XP users have posted messages to Internet
discussion lists and newsgroups reporting that text is automatically
appearing in Internet Explorer's address bar or in Outlook e-mail
messages or Word documents as users compose them.
In a posting entitled "My Remote Keyboard is Possessed in XP," for
example, one Microsoft customer reported "very strange behavior" that
included letters appearing in input areas of the screen while browsing
and writing e-mails.

"I'm afraid Holy Water would short it out so someone please help me,"
wrote the XP user.

Another Microsoft customer separately reported that "a ghost" appeared
to be taking over his computer. In the message, entitled "Phantom Menace
XP," the user said something was causing toolbars and options to pop up
without his input.

In response to user inquiries, in January Microsoft published a handful
of articles in the Support section of its Web site about the problem.

According to Microsoft, after installing Microsoft's Speech application
programming interface, "random words or characters may be displayed in
Office XP documents or in the Internet Explorer Address bar."

The company said the behavior occurs because "the speech recognition
tool is 'listening' to your voice through you computer's microphone and
is attempting to recognize what you are saying."

Microsoft said its speech recognition engine, a program file named
Sapisvr.exe, is turned on at installation by some computer
manufacturers. The engine is also included with Microsoft Office XP and
other speech-enabled products.

To resolve the problem, Microsoft said XP users should disable the
Dictation and the Voice Command features on the operating system's
Language bar. Alternately, users can turn off speech recognition
completely from the Regional and Language Options tool on XP's Control
Panel.

Merely unplugging or turning off the computer's microphone does not
correct the random-character problem, according to several user reports.

Microsoft's article about random characters in Office XP is at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q315765 .

Microsoft's article on configuring speech recognition in Windows XP is
at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306537 .

Microsoft's .NET Speech homepage is http://www.microsoft.com/speech/ .

Slashdot (slashdot.org) and others are reporting that "some Windows XP users are finding random words inserted into their text as they write. The problem is caused by XP's speech recognition system, which is turned on by default by some manufacturers. It's listening to the random noise you get even when the mic is turned off."

Microsoft is blaming the problem on some computer manufacturers who enable this feature by default in their installation of the operating system.

Draw your own conclusions regarding the risks of adding powerful features that users are unaware of.

thankyou all ive disabled it . i think it was the additional background option listening to the telly no doubt. cheers all.

Most likey listening to John Peel A little bit of Home Truths never hurt anyone.

Why thank you Norman for the positive insight.......