If this is what you’re looking for, you might have wondered… where the heck is it on the Windows 10 settings?
As you might have realized, Windows 10 settings doesn’t show this settings dialogue anymore. Instead, you have bunch of other useless things under settings all around keyboard settings—but none of them will help you to increase or decrease your Cursor Blink Rate, the Character Repeat such as the Repeat Delay or the Repeat Rate. And even though you type “keyboard properties” to the search console of the settings, Windows will tell you that it doesn’t know nothing about nothing:
Alright, let’s solve this.
The Keyboard Properties are still there. And Windows developers made it as difficult as possible to find it. And why would they make your life miserable? Because Microsoft can!
Open the commander. To do so, Press CTRL+X and click “run”. On the run field, type cmd:
And then, on the command window, type these magic words:
main.cpl @1
This is how it should look like:
And by saying these words, the magical Keyboard Properties will appear!
I hope that helped. And if it did, don’t be shy. I appreciate any comment below.
Thank you!
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Thanks a lot!!!!
yes yes yes it worked… THANKS SO MUCH
Thank you so much for this.
I hate Microsoft so much for how they make my life more difficult with their Control Freak attitude.
Thanks to Microsoft I have discovered the world of Linux and like it much better there.
If it wasn’t for compatibility with work I would be completely on Linux.
Thank you, thank you! Just got a new laptop and discovered they had removed the setting. What the heck is wrong with these Windows developers? Are they just trying to make our lives miserable? Anyway, this little thing is such a big deal to me, since I am typing on my PC all day for my job. Really appreciate it…
You can also click in the search box, choose Control Panel and then choose Keyboard. Alternately, click the Windows icon, scroll to Windows System, and choose Control Panel from that folder. Good luck!
Thank you so much for this guide! Have been searching for this setting for some time now
Cheers
OMG thank you so much! Shame on windows….
NO WAY DOES IT EVEN BRING UP WHAT YOU SHOW ON MY LAPTOP. (ASUS)
It brings me to the MS mouse and keyboard page and tells me I do not have a MS device . It does not know my computer exists.
My God!!!! Saved my life. I’ve been struggling with repeated keys for a long time. Thanks.
First time Windows 10 user here. – Thank you so much for this hint.
Am completely baffled that Microsoft does not have these detailed ‘delay’ and ‘repeat’ settings in their new “Settings”, but only a checkbox.
Apparently also ‘control.exe keyboard’ will work.
The command brings up the mouse properties, but nothing about the keyboard.
Thank you!!!!
Very useful.
Best regards
Thank you very much for your very helpful tip.
2 things I wander:
1. How do you know that?
2. What the hell was Microsoft thinking?
Regards.
I join the chorus of praise for this very simple, extremely effective fix. Now if we can just get the poor soulless bastards at Microsoft to let us control the color of the text highlighter…
Thank you!
GREAT! Thank you so much. My first few days on Win 10, have been incredibly frustrating. It is so hard to make things work as efficiently as Win 7. Microsoft seems to be trying to make every good thing they ever did be difficult in the next version.
Thank you. I’m fascinated by (but too lazy to research) the reason that this works.
Thank you! I am only testing W10 Pro to see what has changed in the past few years, and it appears that MS has aimed W10 for most everyone except keyboard users. To even hide keyboard hardware settings from the Settings menu?? LOL! That’s crazy!
main.cpl @1
Magic! Thx
Is this a permanent setting or only active during a logged in session?
Thank you very much :)
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thanks good to find someone who knows something gc
Hiding these properties from users is really annoying.
Your advice worked like a miracle!
Just had to enter two spaces between cpl and @1
Thanks, was doing my head in trying to find that setting panel. Cheers!
Much obliged!
main.cpl @1 solved my problem.
Microsoft seems to want to take as much away from our control as possible. They have a word for that.
Thanks. (Not the word…)
Wasted 2 days for this! You are great! Thanks. You saved my day!!
Thanks man! its driving me crazy after i reinstalled my win10. its one of the basic things i start tweaking after a fresh install. wasted like 15 mins hunting it down within win10 itself.
Great share! cheers mate!
Thanks so much for this, reinstalled Windows 10 today and was about to go berserk because I couldn’t find this option no longer.
God Microsoft, get your shit together!