I\'m still fumbling my way around WPF at the moment, and can not figure out why this context menu item is disabled:
An even simpler answer would be to add a call to Focus() in the Window's constructor. I bumped into this issue yesterday and spent quite a bit of time figuring out what was going on. I blogged about it here: http://cebla5.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1B8262ED00250003!206.entry
The blog post will explain why calling Focus() in the constructor works.