Disable Filter Keys and its shortcut
This restores normal processing of brief and repeated keystrokes and prevents accidental reactivation.
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Fix a Windows keyboard that ignores fast duplicate presses or will not repeat a held key because Filter Keys was enabled.
If every keyboard—including the On-Screen Keyboard—suppresses quick duplicate presses, check Filter Keys before replacing hardware.
Press Windows+I, open Accessibility, select Keyboard, and locate Filter Keys.
Disable Filter Keys and test repeated letters in Notepad.
Open the Filter Keys settings and turn off the keyboard shortcut if holding Right Shift triggered it unintentionally.
If Filter Keys was already off, open Control Panel Keyboard and verify repeat delay and repeat rate.
This restores normal processing of brief and repeated keystrokes and prevents accidental reactivation.
Use Windows accessibility controls first. Registry timing belongs in an advanced, backed-up recovery path only.
Back up the current values before any registry change.
Windows can offer to enable it after Right Shift is held for eight seconds unless that shortcut is disabled.
No. Filter Keys removes inputs; switch chatter creates extra down/up events from one physical press.
Microsoft Support. Current Windows Accessibility path and Filter Keys behavior.
Super User. Symptom and Right Shift activation pattern.
Microsoft Support. Direct-port, battery, cable, hub-bypass, driver, and cross-PC diagnostic order.