That's weird that mIRC would be using a global hook to monitor accelerator (shortcut) keys in the application. Maybe Khaled can elaborate on what changed in this area? Does mIRC use WH_KEYBOARD or WH_KEYBOARD_LL for accelerators now? Why not CreateAcceleratorTable or at least RegisterHotKey?

Well. At least I won lunch.
Good philosophy, see good in bad, I like!