Very slow typing in cmd.exe

May 14, 2008 in Computers | 7 comments

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T60 with Windows XP, service pack 2. I would occasionally notice a problem when running a cmd.exe command line, that typing would grind to a halt. Characters would take about a second each to appear in the console. I found that the cause was a service named “IPS Core Service”. Disabling that made the cmd.exe window responsive again.

  1. Abe Taylor on June 3, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    thanks, I ran into the same problem, and this fixed it!

  2. Pete Levy on August 5, 2008 at 11:32 am

    Me too! I’ve been suffering with this for awhile and I gave up finding a solution. Thanks!

  3. Kevin on August 25, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    Genius! Thanks!

  4. Jason Crist on January 28, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    Perfect! Just got a new T60 and use the CLI a lot. This was driving me nuts! Thanks for the tip.

  5. Lawrence on May 4, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    Thanks for posting this! The slow response got irratating very quickly. No more!

  6. t.w on June 9, 2009 at 8:44 am

    A good tip. I always disliked Window’s command line interface.

  7. Frank Kim on October 3, 2009 at 8:44 am

    That worked! Thanks so much!