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Craig, I assume that you in fact returned TRUE in your first code snippet to stop further processing ! I looked around a little and found an article "Static Controls" on the MSDN CD, below I paste the relevant paragraph: >>Static controls might be called "no input controls" because they accept no input from the user. If the user moves the mouse over a static control, Windows sends the control a WM_NCHITTEST message. The static control returns an HTTRANSPARENT value to Windows, which then sends the WM_NCHITTEST message to the static control's parent window. As a result of this processing, the parent window of the static control receives all mouse events. Static controls do not provide any notifications to their parent windows; in other words, they do not send any WM_COMMAND messages.<< So if you don't like your second approach, you have to subclass that static control and to handle OnNcHitTest. First call the original handler, and when it returns HTTRANSPARENT, you could change it to HTCLIENT. ThomasZ