>Rick,
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>Thanks for the heads up. Just a thought. Have you tried using a RLE bitmap with the PictureClip ActiveX control? The listview and treeview can use what its GraphicCell() method returns. I'm wondering if this applies there too.

I haven't used the PictureClip control, but thanks for pointing it out. I ran into this problem while trying to use what turned out to be RLE-encoded bitmaps in an image control on a form and for _screen.picture. The solution in this case was simply to change the bitmaps to RGB mode.