my computer thinks too much and my documents stink too much and my network places can't seemt to find my other network places and this piece of junk won't fit in the recycling bin.

whoa --- that solves all the problems, i'm so glad companies can come up with these comprehensive faqs that have an answer for just about every relevant question possible. :)

Perhaps a few well known contributors to Code Project can also be designated as moderators, and then be allowed to delete questionable posts, this way not just limiting it to chris and the other helpers. -Tyler Rhodes

Chris - As a person who is relativley new to the Windows programming scene I have found CodeProject to be extremely interesting. Even more than being able to find source code and help on the forum, reading about what people who are doing what I want to be doing is very interesting, and is probably the reason that I check this site more often than any other site such as CodeGuru. The articles on your visit to Microsoft was of particular interest. For someone like me who is still working on their own notepad or similar small projects, software development on a large scale such as that has always been somewhat of a mystery, and to be able to read about it is enlightening. While some anonymous people seem to think that interviews and stories along these lines make CodeProject soft, I tend to think that it makes CodeProject a more interesting place to visit. -Tyler

Just one thing that you forgot, when you restore the window's position you need to set pwp.length = sizeof(pwp) for anybody else that sees this. Tyler.

thanks a lot, this is much better than what I was doing previously.

ah yeah, MoveWindow takes width and height and not x2, y2. I wish I remembered that. I did this once in MFC though the same way with MoveWindow using GetWindowRect but when looking back through the code I missed the rect.Width(), and rect.Height() instead of just a RECT structure passing the bottom and right. thanks for the help.

I've tried to store the windows location/size in the registry, and it appears to save the right numbers, but when I read them back in and call MoveWindow it seems to change the numbers. Is move window the right function to call for this, or am I saving the wrong postion using by calling GetWindowRect? I'm pretty sure that its not any of the code that is wrong, but rather that I'm not saving the right numbers. thanks tyler.