Roger65 wrote: what does it take to make it functional? Ehum, some programming? I recommend you implement some type of publish/subscribe pattern[^] where anyone who thinks he's got the focus, can publish a set of properties. The properties window will be a subscriber. home

That was version 1.0 it didn't get the cursor from the desktop, just the dialog box. You did however give me a clue, I put a Sleep(1) inside the while(exitcode == STILL_ALIVE), cpu usage dropped to 0. Old dog learning new tricks!