Quote Originally Posted by bushmobile
yeah, that's what i meant.

i've been fiddling around with this - i thought SysListView32 was transparent, and it just displayed the progman background, so i put the form behind it, but then it just disappears.
Ya I tried that too.
In web view, if you move the form too quickly in Webview, you'll notice that , the icons doesn't get refreshed correctly.
That makes me think that, MS is actually using your custom draw idea.

I'll try your other suggesations and post again.