Tomasz, I've already tried that but it has led me nowhere. If you use spy++ on it there is nothing there. It recieves no messages, has no window, etc. The creation for each of the six windows is the same except for the coordinates and a different id. I do not understand why it would stop working after the 3rd instance of that CPanel class. I stepped through the Creation of the window and everyhting seems normal.It is a window and has a valid handle. Its just when the windows finally get painted there is nothing there. I am really lost here.....but thank you. Nice screensaver BTW Regards, Eric "DWORD my man!"

Use SelectClipRgn on the Device context of the Bitmap Button Control and BitBlt the Bitmap on to it. Subbi.

Is the application UNICODE? If so then there might be some problems with: RegQueryValueEx(tempKey,"Label", NULL, &dwType,(BYTE*) RegRead.GetBuffer(256), &dwSize); if this IS unicode then GetBuffer(256) will return 512 bytes (256 wchar_t) meaning your dwSize parameter is incorrect. Another possible problem would be if the RegQueryValueEx is appending a terminating NULL. Try calling RegRead.ReleaseBuffer(-1) instead.