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George, I agree with you to the extent that we shouldn't have to go outside VB to get certain things done, but it's only a version 1.0 product, so that's to be expected. However, if you need to do something, and VB doesn't do it, then there's no need to feel that you shouldn't go to the API since that's what it's there for. The only caveat would be to avoid undocumented functions because those might disappear or change in the future. Same thing with DOS…I bet that those programs that never did undocumented stuff (hard to avoid with DOS, I admit) have very few problems with DOS 5.0. Remember that it's in Microsoft's best interests not to muck with the Windows API, MUCH moreso than DOS. Remember that *every* program out there that was written with the C/SDK (including VB!) is *only* using the API! VB is using the API, and if Microsoft changed anything in the API, your VB program would break regardless of whether you called the API directly or not. – Ted There is 1 Reply.