Dave's top tip for keyboard shortcuts - make sure they don't clash with other applications. I'm recording a demo for a presentation using Camtesia, which uses F9 to start and stop recording. I'm 5 or 6 minutes into the presentation and start the debugging bit, manually placing a breakpoint in VS 2005. I continue with the demo, hit the breakpoint, press F9 to disable the breakpoint for next time around and continue with the demo. Completely forgetting of course, that since I'm recording F9 is now handled by Camtesia so I've stopped the recording. Another few minutes of recording and I switch to the recording window to stop it when I see it's already stopped because of the F9. Bother (which wasn't the word I used, but I try and be polite on this blog). I could try and record the end section and splice them together, but I know it's going to look awful, so it's start again, remembering to use the mouse to enable/disable breakpoints this time. Sigh.