yup, Frans C. I've placed a picturebox and then an image control on the picture box. The reason I've done that and not used the picture property of the MDIFrom itself, is that the MDIForm does not have a Stretch property, which an image control does. (The picture box doesn't have that property as well). Is there any other way out??? Other than not making the form a child form(which I have to do!!!)???? Coz the form which has to be a child form is a registration form for the user and I need it to be a child form. Any ideas????

Thanks again!