i found them, what i really wanted is a way to use the one included in shell32.dll, anyway, the main problem is as follows: I'm trying to implement a rutin wich use a scan, meanwhile, I want it to display the avi continuously. I managed to play it once, while the scan do its job (I modified the demo in VFP to do so), but first it performs the avi, then the scan but the method wich is performed when the avi has finished, never gets fired. When i run it without the scan, it runs nicely thou.