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Ärende: Solved - Faster cursor and key repeat rate in Windows XP !!!!!!!!!!!!
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From: Gary Britt <GaryNOSPAMBritt@generalcogster.com>

I have always found that the cursor speed and key repeat rate in Windows XP was
not nearly fast enough.  Even when the repeat rate was set to maximum speed
through the control panel.  The key repeat rate in XP is measurably slower at
maximum than the maximum repeat rate under Win2K.  I have tried to find a way
to make the cursor speed up, and did find a program called Keyboard King that
works very well and very customizable, but alas its implementation is somehow
flawed because it doesn't play well with other keyboard hotkey/macro programs
and doesn't get along at all with DOS programs running in a window.

I have finally found a solution, that at least allows the cursor and key repeat
rate to be set as high or higher than in Win2K.

The solution is you can trick the accessibility tool "FilterKeys" to SPEEDUP
the repeat rate instead of slowing it down.  To implement this solution just
add the following to your XP registry and then reboot.  Upon rebooting
Filterkeys should be loaded and your key repeat rate will be about 66
characters per second.  Twice as fast as the maximum XP repeat rate.  The
repeat rate can be adjusted just by changing the appropriate entry in the
following reg entry, if 66 cps is too fast or too slow for your tastes.

Here's the reg entry:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\Keyboard Response]
"AutoRepeatDelay"="200"
"AutoRepeatRate"="15"
"BounceTime"="0"
"DelayBeforeAcceptance"="8"
"Flags"="59"
"Last BounceKey Setting"=dword:00000000 "Last Valid Delay"=dword:000000c8
"Last Valid Repeat"=dword:0000000f
"Last Valid Wait"=dword:00000008



The settings are in milliseconds.  The AutoRepeatRate is the interval between
each repeat so a setting of 15 ms = 1,000/15 = 66.67 cps key repeat rate.  The
DelayBeforeAcceptance is the milliseconds the key must be depressed to be
recognized.  My Northgate Omnikey keyboards and probably most keyboards call
this a Key Validation time and the default for my Omnikeys is 8 milliseconds. 
So that's what I would recommend for everyone.
  BounceTime should always be 0 for this configuration.  The AutoRepeatDelay
setting of 200 milliseconds (.20 seconds) is the default and minimum setting
for my Omnikey keyboards.  Windows may use a setting of 250, in effect.  So
this setting is a bit less of delay before repeats start than under the
smallest delay setting windows otherwise allows.  AutoRepeatDelays that are set
two low will result in serious key bounce (i.e., unintended key repeats).  The
Flags key is what tells windows to load the filterkeys driver/options and tells
it what options and settings have been selected.

NOTE:  Don't use the control panel applet for accessibility/Filterkeys to make
changes or try to adjust keyboard settings because if you do the above entries
will be overwritten by the very slow default filterkeys settings. If you want
to adjust the keyrepeat rate or something, you have to do it by editing the
registry entries above and then rebooting.

I don't know if anybody else needs a faster key repeat rate, but I sure did.
  I've been used to a very speedy cursor since the days of MS/PC-dos and old
utilities like "Cruise Control".  Based on my google searches for a solution
that somebody else might have come up with, it appears neither faster key
repeat rates or a mouse with a decent acceleration curve under XP aren't in
much demand.  So I may be the only one who needed/wanted a solution to these
nagging problems.  I've now found registry hacks to solve both of these XP
problems.

Enjoy if you so desire.

Gary

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