Naomi,

I found an update for OCX SP6. "Search" your system drive for "comctl". THe dates prpbably go back to 1998 - 2000. Those controls had leaks - and if everything was not in balance or we made a small programming error - they were unforgiving - crashed the sytem and in some cases junked memory. They're very tedious little rascals.

The problem is not VFP 5 it is the old OCX SP 6 we have been using. THere is an update for April 2005 - a big secret see message#1167905.

I think MS has been managing these leaks from inside VFP. My VFP 8,7,6 projects with their succesive code-work-arounds at leased allowed the listview column reorder to work. They (column reorder) crashed VFP5 without a glimmer of hope!

Strange that a flawed OCX would work in subsequent versions of VFP - almost as if the VFP upgrades attempted to correct the flaws in OCX (SP-6).

The updatefixed all my VFP 5 issues - and all the controls in my projects that use imagelist have cleaner sharper images.

It's a big deal. I saw and experienced a difference right away. My hope is that I can make a coding mistake - and with the new OCX - will not have to deal with a C00005 crash. Hopefully this updates means that VFP will catch the OCX errors before Windows has to!

Later Gator!