Do you and your fiancee use Outlook 2003 on WinXPpro? The Outlook reminders worked fine in Outlook 2000 on Win2k . . . and it works fine on my home system (Outlook 2002 on WinXPhome). I suspect that they changed (broke) something in Outlook 2003. Mathcad never popped to the front at work . . . Win2k or WinXPpro . . . but it does at home on WinXPhome. Perhaps there's something going-on with NOT being an Admin (aka SuperUser) at work? Regardless, it still sounds like an interesting learning experience to be able to do what I want to do :-) Saber Of Borg

This might possibly help me raise a form to the front once I know that a particular form needs to be brought to the front, but, I don't see now this will wake-up my application when some other application window has just opened. Please elaborate . . . Thanx. Saber Of Borg

Yes, I know . . . and the dialogs change with each version of Outlook . . . the old Outlook 2000 on Win2k seemed to work fine . . . always seemed to pop-up when it should . . . at home my Outlook 2002 on WinXPhome seems to work fine . . . always seems to pop-up when it should . . . the problem I'm having is with Outlook 2003 on WinXPpro . . . about half the time it pops-up behind the other open windows. And, YES, I have the option set that is supposed to force it to the front . . . but it still doesn't. I've tried un-setting the option, saving, then resetting the option, saving . . . thinking perhaps the registry entry where that is stored just needed a swift kick in the rump . . . no help. So, since their stupid s/w can't seem to get-the-hint I thought I'd write a background task that would take charge and do it for Mr Gate's Banta fodder. Plus, I use a math analysis tool called Mathcad which, when you launch it, is too dumb to pop to the front despite the fact that it opens "Maximized" . . . so, if figured I'd flush 2 turds with one stone :-O So, that being the case . . . any ideas how my VC# program can wake-up when a window or dialog (from another app) has just appeared?? TIA Saber Of Borg

Please excuse me if this is an 'obvious' or 'trivial' question . . . I'm a C# newbie . . . familiar with VB5 (learning VB.NET and C#.NET), but this .NET arena is quite different :-O I would like to write a C# applet which hides in the background and watches for the common Windows "File Open" (or "File SaveAs") dialog to open-up (from any application running on the system), and then attach a couple of icons to the title-bar which would do actions that I'm going to code-up. Specifically, there's an old, unsupported piece of software called "PowerDesk Dialog Helper" (which worked great pre-XP, but is mostly-broken with modern apps) which would put a "Recent Files" and "Recent Folders" icon on the title-bar (the lists being unique to the application which launched the dialog) so that you could easily navigate to places where you'd been with that application. I'd like to recreate this behavior, and embellish upon it. Any suggestions on how to make my applet (probably hide in the 'tray') take-notice of a newly-opened "File SaveAs" or "File Open" dialog box, and then attach a pair of icons to it's title-bar?? Thanx (in advance). Saber Of Borg

Please excuse me if this is an 'obvious' or 'trivial' question . . . I'm a C# newbie . . . familiar with VB5 (learning VB.NET and C#.NET), but this .NET arena is quite different :-O I would like to trigger an event when a window or dialog opens-up anywhere in the Windows environment. I wish my C# applet to take some action (specifically, to pop that window/dialog to the foreground of all other open windows) when it senses that a window/dialog has just appeared-on-the-scene; I don't want to trigger when a user merely "Restore"s (i.e. un-minimizes) an already-open application. I'm trying to write a 'tray' applet which watches for the Outlook2003 "Reminder" dialog (which often pops-up BEHIND open applications, thus not waking-me-up for my appointments ;-O ) and forcing it to the foregound . . . and possibly playing a 'sound' to get my attention. Any pointers on how to do that, or which keywords I should be using in searches? I've tried "trigger window open" (and similar words), but haven't stumbled upon anything useful yet. Thanx (in advance). Saber Of Borg