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I've been trying more and more to use the keyboard alone for most of my activities and avoid the mouse. The Context Menu key on most modern keyboards is an invaluable tool for this, as it brings the context menu for whatever the selected item is (just like right-clicking), something I didn't know until a few weeks ago.

However, my Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop keyboard does not have a context menu key (at least not that I can find).

Is there a key combination (Alt/Ctrl/Fn) that can be used to mimic that function, or a utility to remap the keyboard?

Thanks for your help.

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It's been a while since I used Windows, but wasn't SHIFT+F10 a replacement of that key a couple of Windows versions back when the majority of keyboards didn't even have it?

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Wow, good call. Works on XP, at least. – Kenneth Murphy Dec 10 '09 at 20:09
Also works with Vista. – innaM Dec 10 '09 at 20:14
That works, Manni. Thanks. – daveh551 Dec 16 '09 at 14:33
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I don't believe there is a built-in key combination for that model. Go get SharpKeys, which will let you map another key you don't use often to the context menu key.

In SharpKeys, the context menu key is "Special: Application (E0_5D)".

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Ken, thanks for the pointer. I'd rather avoid loading my machine up with any more little utilities if there's another way to do it. – daveh551 Dec 16 '09 at 14:34
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