What are the all possible values of Repeat Rate / Repeat Delay offered by Win 7 concerning Keyboard settings.
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Did you check in the control panel under Keyboard settings? Or are you looking for something more specific?– bfhdFeb 9, 2012 at 23:50
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1For sure I did. But there are no values, expressed only in words (short/long or fast/slow). I need an exact values in miliseconds.– StanykoFeb 9, 2012 at 23:59
4 Answers
Check in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard
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The KeyboardSpeed
property determines the rate at which a character repeats when a keyboard key is held down.
This is a value in the range from 0 (approximately 2.5 repetitions per second) through 31 (approximately 30 repetitions per second). The actual repeat rates are hardware-dependent and may vary from a linear scale by as much as 20%.
The KeyboardDelay
property indicates the length of time after a key is pressed and held down before keystroke repeat messages are sent by the operating system.
This value is in the range from 0 (approximately 250 millisecond delay) through 3 (approximately 1 second delay). The actual delay associated with each value may vary depending on the hardware.
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This answer does not appear to be supported by the information given in the "source" link. Nov 23, 2012 at 21:56
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1The link has been changed since I posted it, it was a direct copy/paste ;(. This is a likely replacement: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978658.aspx– bfhdFeb 20, 2013 at 19:56
Leave HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard
alone and try [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\Keyboard Response]
instead. Try the following settings which activate so-called filter keys:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\Keyboard Response]
"AutoRepeatDelay"="200"
"AutoRepeatRate"="6"
"DelayBeforeAcceptance"="0"
"Flags"="59"
Flags has to be 59
, other values are in ms
. Needs logout or restart to activate. Experiment as you wish, though I found AutoRepeatDelay
less than 200
generating unneeded repeats. I tested XP Home and Prof, as well as Windows 7 64 bit, and it worked excellently.
Original values, just in case of trouble, are:
"AutoRepeatDelay"="1000"
"AutoRepeatRate"="500"
"DelayBeforeAcceptance"="1000"
"Flags"="126"
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Thanks for posting this! I used auto-repeat value of 725 for my 1000 Hz polling rate keyboard, it was doing random repeats and this fixed it :)– ZhuindenAug 19, 2014 at 18:06
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1Excellent trick EXCEPT that it causes controlling keys to stick (I have my Ctrl and Win sticking even in games, completely gone after disabling this trick). Feb 10, 2018 at 8:57
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2Make sure to enable on Filter Keys or this won't work! (btw this is awesome)– zupaFeb 20, 2019 at 13:22
For a UI alternative to modifying the registry as described by Appenzeller, this utility lets you tweak to speeds not available through the Control Panel.
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41881.0 - FilterKeys Setter... for a faster key repeat (in Windows)
Save this into a faster_kb.reg
file (extending the top-voted answer for ease of use and set Flags=27 to hide the annoying icons):
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\Keyboard Response]
"AutoRepeatDelay"="200"
"AutoRepeatRate"="6"
"DelayBeforeAcceptance"="0"
"Flags"="27"