One Specific key will not auto-repeat when held down.

[Deviatedly]

I have an extremely specific issue that I cannot for the life of me figure out. I've already tried setting the keyboard speed and repeat rate, I've made sure Sticky Keys and Filter Keys are off. I've already tried toggling them.

The issue is that every key on my keyboard works as intended with ONE exception. If I hold down 'Q' it properly spam repeats like 'qqqqqqqqqq' however, for the 'S' key specifically, it will type the character once, and then not repeat. I have also tried switching to a different keyboard and it did not solve the issue. Please help.

 

[Colif]

Try a clean boot and see if it changes anything - make sure to read instructions and make sure NOT to disable any microsoft services or windows won't load right - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

It doesn’t delete anything, it just stops non Microsoft programs running with start. Easy to reverse.

if clean boot fixes it, it shows its likely a startup program. You should, over a number of startups. restart the programs you stopped to isolate the one that is to blame.

have you tried in safe mode?

Does keyboard have its own software?

 

[ubuysa]

My bet is that you have an additional keyboard driver for some app you have and it's preventing the S key from repeating. To check, open the registry editor and navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e96b-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}. Look at the UpperFilters entry there, all you should see is kbdclass, of you see another driver named before kdbclass then that's likely your problem. You can temporarily remove that extra driver as a test but then some other app will probably not function properly with the keyboard.

 

[Deviatedly]

Try a clean boot and see if it changes anything - make sure to read instructions and make sure NOT to disable any microsoft services or windows won't load right - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

It doesn’t delete anything, it just stops non Microsoft programs running with start. Easy to reverse.

if clean boot fixes it, it shows its likely a startup program. You should, over a number of startups. restart the programs you stopped to isolate the one that is to blame.

have you tried in safe mode?

Does keyboard have its own software?

So it seems like this is the issue. As soon as I booted into Safe Mode, the ability to auto-repeat the S key worked as intended. So now I guess I have to slowly go through the list to find out what is actually causing the issue.

 

[ubuysa]

So it seems like this is the issue. As soon as I booted into Safe Mode, the ability to auto-repeat the S key worked as intended. So now I guess I have to slowly go through the list to find out what is actually causing the issue.

Check the registry key I specified...