>I found this very interesting and added it to my project. I added the code to the oAnimation call, the processing and the release to the command button that starts my process, and I added the animation prg to the prject. All went well on my machine, but when others use the exe, the get an OLE error "not registered".
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>I'm obviously new to all this....what step am I missing?

Phil,
I'm just guessing, but I think it is the MSComCtl32 OCX control. It is called in your code. Try registering that on one of the machines that has a problem and see what happens.

HTH,