> In box Dos Box and full screen > still get the error msg: "keyboard did not accept new repeat settings." The *XyWrite* error msg? Or a Windows error msg? If the former, in SETTINGS.DFL put a semi-colon in front of the line that specifies a value for KS (i.e. disable it). I dunno about W98, but WNT just hates KS. The keyboard is controlled via the Keyboard object in Control Panel. Idle detection has nothing to do with this error (but leave the Control Panel slider at far left anyway).Bingo, Robert. Thank you. Michael Norman