Is the following utility successful in getting the contents of the list view? FWIW, here is a clever utility that copies the text of another process's controls to the clipboard. The controls that are supported are Edit (including obscured password edits), Static, Headers, Listview, ComboBox and ListBox. Source code (GPL'd) is included: "Control Content Saver" by Jacquelin Potier at http://jacquelin.potier.free.fr/controlcontentsaver/[^] If the code at the above site works, whereas yours doesn't, then compare code. If the code at the site doesn't work either, then you might not be looking at an ordinary list view control. Are you 100% certain that the windows class is SysListView(32)? Double-check with Spy++. If it's definitely a SysListView, then also check the style flags. Maybe it's an owner-data (i.e., a virtual list view) or owner-drawn, or both. Mike