Ctrl + 1 and Ctrl + 2 key combinations don't work

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Published on 2010-12-20T06:16:14Z Indexed on 2010/12/21 6:56 UTC
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I noticed back in August (when I got StarCraft 2) that the key combinations Ctrl + 1 and Ctrl + 2 didn't work. I thought this was weird because Ctrl + 3 and all the other combinations worked fine (including Shift + 1, etc), so I didn't think much of it; I just shrugged it off as a SC2 bug.

Now, 4 months later, I decided to play a completely unrelated game--Dawn of War 2--and noticed the same thing: those two specific key combinations don't work. To make sure I wasn't going insane, I tried it in Chrome and a couple other applications, and alas, it didn't work.

I remember playing strategy games over the summer before StarCraft 2 and it worked fine. Any idea as to what went wrong? My keyboard, a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 1000 (I know, insert Microsoft joke here), is a little over a year old, so I'm going to assume it's not dying until proven otherwise.


Things I've tried

  • ActiveHotkeys says the key combination is not a global hotkey.
  • Tried another keyboard--still doesn't work.
  • The key combinations do work in a virtual machine (tried with both Windows and Ubuntu as guests).

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