Tip #2354 - Keyboard Speed
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Keyboard
Speed
Did you know that
you can customize some of your keyboard settings? Does that sound like
something you would like to check out?
Well, if you do, go
to Start, Control Panel and click on
the Printers and Other Hardware, then Keyboard (for XP).
If you have an older version of Windows, go to Start,
Control Panel and look for the Hardware
icon or even just one that says Keyboard.
Once you click on
that, the Keyboard Properties message box will come up
on your screen. Under the Character Repeat section, you
can choose how long, or short, you would like before a character (a letter,
etc.) repeats itself when you're holding down a key. Maybe sometimes you're
typing along and a double letter somehow shows up. It may have,because
you held onto that one key just a little too long. Well, if that seems
to happen to you a lot, you can change the repeat delay to a longer amount
of time, so you will have more time to move onto the next letter or word.
Just use the arrow slider to move in either direction.
Next, you can check
on the repeat rate of your keyboard. If you sometimes hold down a key
for soooooooooooooooooooo long, it may take forever for that one letter
to repeat itself. You can fix that by moving the arrow slider to the Fast
side. Or, if you like it slower, you can move the slide to the Slow side.
Once you have it where you would like it, you can test the rate to see
how fast, or slow, it will go.
The last thing you
can do is play with the cursor blink rate. Depending on how fast you would
like your cursor to blink at you when it's standing still, you can have
it blink at a fast rate, a medium rate or even no rate at all.
When you've made all
your changes, just hit OK and they will take effect.
Pretty cool, huh?
~ Erin
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