Have you tried loading the VERSIONINFO stuff from the DLL's resources?    Peace! -=- James. "Some People Know How To Drive, Others Just Know How To Operate A Car." (Try Check Favorites Sometime!)

Jack Handy wrote: Like I said before, I wasn't sure how windows would handle this No problem. That's why into a bit of detail. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C# A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

I can't thank you enough! That's the cause... Everything works great with Rich Edit Control 3, but not-so-great with version 2. Do you have any idea WHY version 2 doesn't right-align correctly? Thanks!

Thank you - but is this path correct for all versions of IE? (4+, actually) - and is it guranteed to remain correct for future versions? Or - is there some (COM?) API I can call to do it for me?

Hey, you may already have the answer to your question, but if you don't I might be able to point you in the right direction. I recently dealt with a host of ActiveX issues myself, and I recalled reading that messages are dispatched to the container class, and you are responsible for getting those messages, and passing them through to your control. Check out the MSDN Topic "Active Technology" and go from there, I beleive you'll find at least an example of how messages are passed to the control. In terms of Win98 Repaint messages not being sent, don't know about that, but I would install the latest Service Pack and the latest Video Card drives on that machine before I started pulling my hair out. D.