Hi Al Doman, >>I have a fw buttons with .ico as pictures. >>When tht button is disbaled, the Pictures lose their colour and display as a Black and White type silhouette >> >>I've set the 'Disbled Picture property' but there was no improvement. >> >>Anybody know of a way to get clourful pictures with a disbaled button ? > >You may need to create a mask (.MSK) file for each icon/bitmap. I think that mask (.MSK) file are only to create transparency areas in your image.