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From: "Gary Britt" <glb@gencog.com>


"Gary Britt" <glb@gencog.com> wrote in message news:4446c048@w3....
>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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