>>I appologize, I typed it wrong in UT, I have KEYBOARD '{CTRL+F10}'
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>>any other thoughts
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>Check the menus. Any menu which may have the same hotkey may take over. Also, it may happen there's something on the windows level - some app stealing your keystrokes. I once made a little utility just for my own use, and it was supposed to be invoked via f12. Each time I pressed f12 some emailing software would pop up from the tray.

Yes, ICQ by default grabs onto a bunch of hotkeys and steals them away from all applications.