>I have been playing around with Paintbrush and msdraw. I can load Paintbrush via activex, but unfortunately i cannot pass in a reference to a picture and load the picture, neither can I save the picture

Hi, Mark.

Using the technique I told you before with WSH, you can do it. Just have a blank JPG or BMP (your canvas), and when you need to edit an image, just copy that blank image with a new name and launch Paintbrush (or whatever pic editor the machine has associated). The only thing you cannot control in these scenario is the user saving the file with another name, instead of just closing and confirming changes.

Hope this helps,