iv'e recently come accross a minor hurdle in a fairly large application in which the deadline for the testing phase in nearing....anyway, the problem.. the ever buggy datetime picker control has no locked property, to many pitfalls in trying to capture keystrokes considering all of the users are keyboard guru's. Does anyone know of a better way in locking the datetime picker? (subclassing??) Seems like a fairly fundamental question yet im stumped... Another issue with same question being the ever so common listbox, another control in which there is no locked property.. oh ya, and if you reply with "just disable it" that wont do.. I need a disabled "scrollable" listbox, disabling completely hinders the control of any user interaction... thanks in advance..