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Skriven 2006-04-19 18:54:56 av Gary Britt (1:379/45)
Ärende: Something Interesting Just Added To Binaries
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From: "Gary Britt" <glb@gencog.com>

I just posted the following message with the referenced file attached.  The
attachment is an .exe file, I'm assuming everyone who might be interested can
get an .exe file downloaded.

Gary

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I've attached a neat little freeware keyboard repeat rate program that is
really great if you are like me and love to tweak the speed of your keyboard
keys.  This program is so good in windows that it reminded me of the old cruise
control program in DOS back in the 80's.  It is in fact more configurable than
the old cruise control program because you can set separate repeat and delay
rates for almost every key on the keyboard.  So you can set left and right
arrow keys to repeat faster than up and down arrow keys and all arrow keys
faster than text keys and all of these faster than page-up and page-down.

The only problem I've experienced with it is that it is incompatible with a
couple of dos programs I use, but I have found it works great will all my 16
and 32 bit windows programs (including several that hook the keyboard interrupt
and a 32 bit windows character based application called ZtreeWin). I found that
having it load early in the startup cycle is good, if you have several other
keyboard based utilities/macro programs.  What I did was use startup control
panel utility to promote it from the startup menu to the HKLM Run menu.

I started looking for this utility because I was tired of my new XP Home
laptop's maximum key repeat rate being too slow for my tastes.  In windows 2000
using the same keyboard and a slower computer, I don't have to set the repeat
rate to maximum to achieve a much faster repeat rate than XP Home set on
maximum.  Clearly it isn't a hardware limitation because this program shows the
hardware is capable of very fast repeat rates.  So there is something different
in the repeat rate settings for XP Home compared to Win2K for sure.

Anyway, let me know if you like this or have any problems with it.  It isn't
under development any longer which is why it was released to freeware by the
author.

Also, one note.  On my computer the program screen doesn't show all the buttons
and the window is not manually resizable.  I have several utilities that let
you resize a window by window title or handle so I just used one of those to
resize the window's height so that everything showed.  This may or may not be a
problem for any of you depending on what screen resolution and font size you
are running.

Gary

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