Some wireless receivers are wired, some are simply small boxes that plug into the usb slot.  If yours is wired, try moving it closer to the keyboard.   You could also swap your wifes receiver for yours and see if it fails the same way in your computer, with both keyboards.
Paul Hachmeyer  


On 9/1/11 1:15 PM, Peter Shkabara wrote:
> My wife and I are using the Logitech Wave wireless keyboard/mouse set. On my
> wife's computer, the keyboard started to skip characters - she would press a
> letter or space bar and nothing happens.
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