Comments on: Windows Vista Tip: How to Fix Slow Keyboard Response After Upgrade From Windows XP

By: Someone

Someone — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:55:07 +0000

Doubling the ResendIterations might also help a lot.

By: Someone

Someone — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:53:00 +0000

In addition to changing PollStatusIterations to 1 (which helped, but didn't solve the problem) doubling the values of PollingIterationsMaximum and PollingIterations seems to help even more. It still doesn't solve the problem (perhaps I need to increase it even more) but it does help.

By: Slick

Slick — Thu, 20 May 2010 23:58:54 +0000

Thanks a million, been buggering about with a new laptop all night that has a slow keyboard response time on certain websites.
This fix worked a treat.

Laptop in question is a MSI CR610 with windows 7.

By: Balazs

Balazs — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:30:32 +0000

Well Geoff's solution is the proper one. Follow the link, download the autoruns application, disable the 'charming' MediaDirect Dell 'present' on your Dell laptop and this annoying problen is gone. I use a Dell Inspiron with preinstalled MediaDirect app.

I think somebody should also inform Dell to check this application before they preinstall it…

By: Jesse B Andersen

Jesse B Andersen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:22:02 +0000

This works really well with the Lenovo S10-3T. I was programming something and my IDE had such slow typing response that it made me sit for longer hours. I started using Notepad to program which eventually got slower typing response. This tip fixed the response and now I'm typing like a ninja.

By: jon

jon — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:01:44 +0000

wtf do you mean by open up the registry?! are there any examples to watch?! because i dont get/cant find one thing your talking about…. im not a computer person at all

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:41:05 +0000

This solution doesn't work on a Dell XPS M1330.
The problem was solved thanks to this link:
http://www.randomsupport.com/rs/blogs/index.php?blog=2&title=dell_laptop_slow_lagging_delayed_keyboar&disp=single&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Essentially it is the Cyberlink Media Direct PCM Service that is causing the problem. Disabling it via autoruns did the trick. Shame on you Dell!

By: William Passas

William Passas — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:55:02 +0000

Your registry needs to be corrected. It should be:

(Default) REG_SZ (Value not set)
PollingIterationsMaximum REG_DWORD 0×00002ee0 (12000)
PollStatusIterations REG_DWORD 0×00000001 (1)
ResendIterations REG_DWORD 0×0000000 (3)

"PollingIterations RED_DWORD 0×00002ee0 (12000)" RED_DWORD is not a valid syntex.

By: Luis Lobo Borobia

Luis Lobo Borobia — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:11:51 +0000

It worked for me! I am using a notebook.
Previously, it was a pain to write, I even thought I had to return the notebook back!!

By: tt

tt — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:44:33 +0000

I added the parameter in Regedit but it doesn't work for me as well. My laptop was working fine until I received the latest mandatory updates from Microsoft. I restore back to previous version and everything works fine again, until the Microsoft mandatory update (once again). Then my system went back to slow response on clicks. Does anyone have any other solution to suggest? This is really a problem for me.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:38:34 +0000

The keyboard is working fine when I running Windows XP using VMWare inside the Vista. So it is definitely Vista problem. Any solution.

By: Manu

Manu — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:28:47 +0000

Hi guys finally I got rid of the problem!

I disabled all the startup programs except bluetooth s/w, Antivirus and my fringer print reader s/w. Now it's working smooth.

Though one of the disabled is the culprit, I dint bother to check one by one as the changes i have made din't make any problems so far.

Dell XPS 1530: Vista HP, T7500, 4GB RAM, GeForce 8600M GT

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:59:13 +0000

Mine is Dell XPS 1330 and have the same problem. Any clue.

By: misbehave

misbehave — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:21:11 +0000

This fix doesn't work for me.
I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 with Vista Home Basic.
The keyboard works fine except when I play games.
When I play FPS game like Rainbow Six, when I press and hold on to the "w" button to perform a run forward action, instead of running smoothing, my character would jerk forward then slow down then jerk forward again and it just keep repeating like that.
Any other way I can fix this?

By: Chinoy

Chinoy — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:31:57 +0000

Im a royally pissed.
Brand new M1530 from Dell. Removed crappy Vista and loaded XP. So dell will not even provide suport.

This is geting my goat big big time.
Will try your fix hope it works.

Microsoft needs to address this issue with a Fix. Fringing RETARDS. One would think with 1.2 GB of hot fixes on a new XP install they could sort this out.