Good luck. Let us know your finding. We can all learn from your work. Thanks Yusuf Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]

I see, by assigning it to NULL, that forces the release on the currently held interface, correct? Thanks for the extra tip!

Hmm, never came back to this, there were so many things running on this particular box, it was resource related.

alchong wrote: I curious if anyone knew if there were any standard WIN32 API that was available. Probably, but without knowing what nfs.exe was doing internally, I wouldn't know. You might could use depends.exe to open nfs.exe and see what functions it is importing from the Win32 API. That would give a big clue. "Love people and use things, not love things and use people." - Unknown "To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

*snicker* ;P Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java: