Keyboard repeat rate: Control panel sends changes to hardware

[_DD]

I know that keyboard repeat rate is basically controlled via registry
keys. But occasionally the keyboard hardware repeat rate can get
changed. The registry values will still be intact. This happens a
lot on some systems (like those using a KVM to switch between two
computers).

Does anyone know of a single-click utility program that can restore
repeat rate and delay to preset values?

 

[paulmd]

I know that keyboard repeat rate is basically controlled via registry
keys. But occasionally the keyboard hardware repeat rate can get
changed. The registry values will still be intact. This happens a
lot on some systems (like those using a KVM to switch between two
computers).

Does anyone know of a single-click utility program that can restore
repeat rate and delay to preset values?

Do you really trust a third party program to mess with your bios
settings? There are too many different bioses out there, for it to be
considered.

It would be failrly simple to write a vbs script to play with the
settings in the registry.

 

[_DD]

_DD wrote:

Do you really trust a third party program to mess with your bios
settings? There are too many different bioses out there, for it to be
considered.

Thanks for your reply, Paul.

I was thinking that the hardware setting that is affected is probably
a write to a standard port number. If so, that would be driver-level
stuff, and maybe implementable via IOCTL calls in native C++.

As far as 'third party,' I'm hesitant to let 3rd party software do
disk defrag, but I'd experiment with port writes to the keyboard.

It gets awkward going to control panel->keyboard->repeat rate when I
switch computers, etc. so I'll try whatever is reputed to work.

 

[Passingship]

_DD

I was having the same problem with the repeat speed being reset on my desktop running XP Home edition and I found online a little utility that I put on my desktop and can now click on it and have my keyboard repeat speed set back to maximum.

Here's the link -- it's way down at the bottom of the page:

http://www.ruijiang.com/projects.htm