Hi Phil,

>So far, so good! It definitely loads and runs faster. Now one more small detail. The background color of the FILEMOVE.AVI provided with VS is PINK...and I can't get it changed to gray to match the form colors. Other than modifying the avi itself, is there a way to change it? I have tries this.oleobj1.displaybackcolor and forecolor, but it ignores it. And trying to change the color in the properties sheet is blocked....

"Hmmmm", is right. Are you trying to change it at run-time then? I will look more tonight, I think I found my way arounf this one before.