Changing Keyboard Settings

While your keyboard should just work when you start up your computer, you can use Keyboard properties in the Control Panel to adjust the rate at which a character is repeated when you hold down a key, and the time delay before it starts repeating. You can also adjust the blink rate of the insertion point.

Change Keyboard Settings

Click the Start button, and then click Control Panel.

Double-click the Keyboard icon in Classic view.

Click the Speed tab.

To adjust the character repeat delay, drag the slider.

To adjust the character repeat rate, drag the slider.

Click OK.

See Also

See " Changing Language Options " on page 94 for information on changing languages and keyboard layouts.