Hi Rick! did you have installed copy of VB5 ? May be you overwrite original Comctl32.ocx that shipped with VFP5? As you know, VB and VFP version are little different. Just checked your question: it happened on my VFP too... ;( Yet another mystery from MS? Anyway, I make it short but still not have the gripper. Have a happy day Vladimir Shevchenko > >Probably your form is too short to fit Status bar. > Nah... that'd be too simple. Anyway the Status bar always resizes itself > depending on the form's size. The status bar is there and working > correctly, just the gripper is missing. Too short - maybe, but there's > no way to tell it what size since it happens automatically.