Comments on: Why is my keyboard response time slow when using Windows XP?

By: bobco

bobco — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:16:10 +0000

Why does everyone start with the most difficult solutions? If your keyboard is having problems, try the simple stuff first. Go to Accessibility Options in the control panel, and see if the “Sticky Key” or “Filter Key” options are checked. If they are, uncheck them and the problem will be solved. This usually happens if you have little kids in the house, or press certain keys by mistake for a long period of time, such as when you lay something on your keyboard. If this doesn’t work, then start doing all the difficult stuff!. P.S., Beware of people that ask for your OS/Hardware configurations before they answer. This means that they have never heard of the problem!

By: chippy088

chippy088 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:57:36 +0000

@Kickhiminthejimmy if you weren’t he originator of the question, you should start your own question session, however, it might be a good idea to ask her about what utility/prog she was running, and why she pressed the keys? Was one of those internet scan type programs, (you know the type free reg scan while you’re on the site, type of thing?)

It could be a setting for a retro game, (one of those which was programmed for the slower processor, Win95 etc.)

Any changes you try to make will need to be in her account, as your settings appear to be unaffected.

If your user account is clear, and it is really annoying, you might want to try removing her account, and creating another.

By: kickhiminthejimmy

kickhiminthejimmy — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:05:59 +0000

Someone took the advice of a pop-up and pressed about three keys that slowed down the response time. She did it on her side of the computer, and it doesn’t effect mine.

So, now, I’ve tried everything from uninstalling, to going to system devices to change the keyboard rate, and have tried to find the config.sys that controls all that stuff so I could change the values. It doesn’t seem to be there.

I can’t find a way to speed the keyboard up on her side. I’m thinking that it is a preference setting, but it isn’t in the programming that I can see in the device panel under keyboards.