That does, of course, require one or two snall favours from him since he will require permission from your boss to neglect your designated tasks..... If the sys admin gets what he wants there is reason to stop doing it again X| Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?

Are you in a separate process? If so you will need to do something else to get your DLL loaded in their process. Any address that is returned to you by this function will only be valid in the process that contains the window. Your problem may be related to that fact, but I am not certain. Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!