Physical buildin keyboard on windows 11 laptop extremely delayed on one user acount.

Question

I have recently experienced an extremely annoying issue with my keyboard which i cannot seem to fix.

Recently i was doing my usual things on my laptop when out of nowhere my keyboard became extremely delayed, i can be typing whole words and it only detects a few letters / numbers, there is a 1.5 second delay between me pressing a key and the key being detected, in both the login screen (sometimes) and the menu (always), I have tried updating the drivers, uninstalling and reinstalling the device and its drivers, have tried tweaking settings, i have tried disabling certain services without succes, i have tried ctfmon.exe, nothing fixed it, all the keyboard settings however are exactly as they should be.

However when i tried using a external keyboard, it worked fine, but the keyboard of the laptop itself just wont work correctly, in the BIOS The keyboard does not experience any kind of delay / stutter / lag, and i have tested the keyboard out on another user profile / acount on my laptop, and it works fine, so it is most likely related to my main acount, however i have absolutely no idea how it happened and how i will ever fix it.

[Device specifications: AMD Ryzen 7940HX 16 Cores 32 Threads, 16GB DDR5 5200MHz, Samsunf SSD 990 Pro 2TB, Unknown Samsung SSD, Intel(R) 6E AX210 160MHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU 8GB, AMD Radeon(TM) 610M, Windows 11 Home]

Thanks to anyone who may be able to help me, all help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Welcome Ottey TheOtter,

I understand how frustrating it can be when the built-in laptop keyboard is experiencing severe input delay on one Windows 11 user account, while the same keyboard works normally in BIOS and on another user account. 

Before proceeding, could you please clarify:    

• Did the issue start after a Windows update, driver update, or installing any new software? 
• Does the keyboard delay also occur when you boot Windows in Safe Mode and sign in with the affected account? 

In the meantime, you can try these steps below to troubleshoot the issue:  

Option 1: Check for profile-specific startup applications  

• Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager 
• Select the Startup apps tab 
• Disable non-essential startup items 
• Restart and test the keyboard 

Option 2: Perform a clean boot  

• Press Windows + R, type msconfig, and press Enter 
• On the Services tab, check Hide all Microsoft services 
• Select Disable all 
• On the Startup tab, select Open Task Manager and disable all startup items. 
• Restart and test 

Option 3: Rebuild the Text Services framework  

• Press Windows + R 
• Type: ctfmon.exe  
• Press Enter 
• Restart the PC 

Option 4: Check for corruption in the affected user profile  

• Open Command Prompt as Administrator 
• Run: DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth 
• After it completes, run: sfc /scannow  
• Restart the PC 

Option 5: Check for high resource usage when typing  

• Open Task Manager 
• Monitor CPU, Memory, and Disk usage while typing on the affected account 
• Note whether any process spikes significantly when the delay occurs 

 I hope the steps above help you deal with your issue.  

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