>drag a shortcut...onto the desktop, go into the shortcut properties, and set the 
>hotkey from there.


Did that, but shortcut key setting wouldn't allow "none" to be edited. Then I discovered that all I had to do was enter a key, and "ctrl+alt+_" were automatically entered. 

Rob

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