IKnowIndigo

God bless you and all of your descendents! What an obscure key! For all I know I pressed that key myself (my keyboard does have one) and the timing coincided with the CCleaner trial. I read your link, learning for the first time what the F Lock key does, and just pressed it and all my problems disappeared. I lost at least 8 hours on this. I don?t know how you made the obscure connection, but you have saved my life. This reminds me of the stupid ?insert? key. I have thought about the hell a novice user would be in if by accident the insert key got pressed. He/she might never know that all that was needed was to press it again. Such dangerous side effects from something so seldom used. Thank you so much! Gene

As a follow up - I completely uninstalled then reinstalled dev studio and still have the problem. I'm at a loss. It feels like something got unhooked that isn't part of dev studio (since it persists after the uninstall/reinstall.) I just checked, and Dev Studio 2005 also has lost F5, F10, etc. The keyboard works fine, and other keyboard accelerators (alt D to select search box) work. Customize says the accelerator keys are there, but they don't work. Anyone anywhere? It's one thing to work without a mouse, but to work only with the mouse is painful. Gene

I read good things about CCleaner, so I tried it. I'm a programmer, and use MS Dev Studio 2003 (currently.) After the first cleaning session, I discovered that dev studio no longer saw my accelerator keys. Normally F5 runs, F10 steps, etc. These no longer work at all! I did a system restore to the day before cleaning, but still had the same problem. This tells me that it's not the registery that's the problem. I then repaired my install of Dev studio, but that didn't fix the problem. I'm now going to uninstall and reinstall dev studio, which (hopefully) will fix the problem. I have to say, I've lost almost a day and don't yet see the light at the end of the tunnel. I use 3 different versions of dev studio, and haven't checked the others - I fear the worst. Does anyone else have a similar experience? I read about 2 other problems with dev studio, although not this one. I'm using version 1.39.502 of CCleaner. thanks, Gene