How to Change Character Delay and Repeat Rate while typing from Keyboard in Windows Vista?


Character Delay is the time that is lapsed between pressing a character key in the keyboard and it being typed on the screen. Character Repeat Rate is the speed at which a character is re-typed on the screen when the character key is pressed and held for sometime.

You can change Character Delay and Repeat Rate in the following manner:

1) Open Control Panel (Classic View) and double click the Keyboard icon



Figure 1


2) Now slide the Repeat delay and Repeat rate sliders forward or backward to change Repeat Delay and Repeat Rate respectively.



Figure 2


3) You can test the Repeat Rate by typing the character in the textbox as highlighted in the figure above

4) Click Apply and then OK button