>Yes .. both in the code to move the cursor and in the form's Paint event .. the VB documentation says it has three differnt "classes" of zorder .. graphics, labels and images and then stuff like buttons, textboxes, picture boxes etc. It seems this appears to overide everything else.
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Sorry, Rob, but I'm fresh out of ideas here. About the only thing else I can think of would be to insert BringWindowToTop() in paint.