System Preferences Freezing when trying to access Keyboard options

As title say. I am trying to access my keyboard preferences via the system preferences and everytime i try to access this it freezes and say Not Responding.
I have tried other things in system preferences like mouse etc and seems to work.
Any Ideas?
regards
Andy

Could you tell me what you meant by 'deleted system preference'? Thank you.

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