Yup that is almost exactly what I am looking for, just need one that works on the command prompt now :) Thanks for reminding me about that address bar btw, it is quite helpful. regards, Paul Watson Cape Town, South Africa e: paulmwatson@email.com w: vergen.org

OK, I just found out the answer. The problem was in the WM_GETDLGCODE. Apparently window dosn't trust anybody but him self to handle the arrow key and tab keys. What I did was just simply return DLGC_WANTMESSAGE in the the OnGetDlgCode() function. (Thanks, MSDN, for burying this tiny IMPORTANT notice in MILLIONS of articles)