>>>Fred
>>>
>>>>>If you click on it interactively (like in a browse) nothing
>>>
>>>You mean, the usual general window comes up with nothing displayed in it? Or it doesn't come up? Or what? Sorry, I'm not there to see what you're doing, I need you to say.
>>
>>You get an empty window.
>>
>>>
>>>>>Programmatically, you get an OLE error
>>>
>>>Can you say what it is exactly?
>>
>>OLE error code: 0x80004005: Unspecified error
>>
>>Kind of sounds like the OLE version of C5, huh?
>
>It pins down a bit further, to an error in KERNEL32; I'd guess that the server used DDE and something failed to start up the DDE server. If IE is your GIF server (it is on mine) then it attempts to use DDE to open the GIF - make sure that your DDE command reads:
>
>

"file:%1",,-1,,,,,

>
>and that your application subcomand is IExplore, with a Topic of WWW_OpenURL
>
>Running 2K Pro SP1 5.00.2195 and IE 5.5 5.50.4522.1800

Ed,

Do you mean in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\giffile\shell\open\ddeexec\Topic
                                                              \Application

Those keys are OK, and the ddeexec command is: "file:%1",,-1,,,,,

What is the format of the clipboard for a "PrintScrn" keypress? That's what I'm trying to save/restore to the general field.

so I guess everthing is set up OK.