Hi Pete,

The code below tries to emulate the Ctrl+Esc keyboard shortcut for the Start menu. You can not do it with KEYBOARD unfortunately. Hope your ankle improves soon. Mine took about 4 weeks.

#DEFINE KEYEVENTF_KEYUP 0x002	&& Flag indicating key was released
#DEFINE VK_CONTROL      0x011	&& Virtual key code
#DEFINE VK_ESCAPE       0x01B
#DEFINE MSCAN_CONTROL   0x09D	&& Make scan code
#DEFINE MSCAN_ESCAPE    0x081
#DEFINE BSCAN_CONTROL   0x09D	&& Break scan code
#DEFINE BSCAN_ESCAPE    0x081

DECLARE INTEGER keybd_event IN Win32API INTEGER, INTEGER, INTEGER, INTEGER


=keybd_event(VK_CONTROL,MSCAN_CONTROL,0,0)               && Press   CONTROL
=keybd_event(VK_ESCAPE ,MSCAN_ESCAPE ,0,0)               && Press   ESCAPE
=keybd_event(VK_ESCAPE ,BSCAN_ESCAPE ,KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0) && Release ESCAPE
=keybd_event(VK_CONTROL,BSCAN_CONTROL,KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0) && Release CONTROL