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Skriven 2006-04-21 21:20:24 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 10787 av Mark (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Did you guys look at this and just yawn or are you just ignoring it
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>

we agree on something today <g>

"Mark" <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:444983c0@w3....
>I saw .exe and decided I didn't want to click it, since I don't really care
>how fast I can type <just more time to get in trouble I figure> <g>
>
> "Gary Britt" <glb@gencog.com> wrote in message news:44496d42$1@w3....
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>> "Gary Britt" <glb@gencog.com> wrote in message news:4446c048@w3....
>>>I just posted the following message with the referenced file attached.
>>>The attachment is an .exe file, I'm assuming everyone who might be
>>>interested can get an .exe file downloaded.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------
>>>
>>> I've attached a neat little freeware keyboard repeat rate program that
>>> is
>>> really great if you are like me and love to tweak the speed of your
>>> keyboard
>>> keys.  This program is so good in windows that it reminded me of the old
>>> cruise control program in DOS back in the 80's.  It is in fact more
>>> configurable than the old cruise control program because you can set
>>> separate repeat and delay rates for almost every key on the keyboard.
>>> So
>>> you can set left and right arrow keys to repeat faster than up and down
>>> arrow keys and all arrow keys faster than text keys and all of these
>>> faster
>>> than page-up and page-down.
>>>
>>> The only problem I've experienced with it is that it is incompatible
>>> with a
>>> couple of dos programs I use, but I have found it works great will all
>>> my 16
>>> and 32 bit windows programs (including several that hook the keyboard
>>> interrupt and a 32 bit windows character based application called
>>> ZtreeWin).
>>> I found that having it load early in the startup cycle is good, if you
>>> have
>>> several other keyboard based utilities/macro programs.  What I did was
>>> use
>>> startup control panel utility to promote it from the startup menu to the
>>> HKLM Run menu.
>>>
>>> I started looking for this utility because I was tired of my new XP Home
>>> laptop's maximum key repeat rate being too slow for my tastes.  In
>>> windows
>>> 2000 using the same keyboard and a slower computer, I don't have to set
>>> the
>>> repeat rate to maximum to achieve a much faster repeat rate than XP Home
>>> set
>>> on maximum.  Clearly it isn't a hardware limitation because this program
>>> shows the hardware is capable of very fast repeat rates.  So there is
>>> something different in the repeat rate settings for XP Home compared to
>>> Win2K for sure.
>>>
>>> Anyway, let me know if you like this or have any problems with it.  It
>>> isn't
>>> under development any longer which is why it was released to freeware by
>>> the
>>> author.
>>>
>>> Also, one note.  On my computer the program screen doesn't show all the
>>> buttons and the window is not manually resizable.  I have several
>>> utilities
>>> that let you resize a window by window title or handle so I just used
>>> one of
>>> those to resize the window's height so that everything showed.  This may
>>> or
>>> may not be a problem for any of you depending on what screen resolution
>>> and
>>> font size you are running.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>>
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