Faint of heart hasn't ever bothered me - I have to work in a school full of kids who think the school network is a plaything for their amusement - it's just my small corner of the universe to dominate and control like any mis-guided network admin
I will however check the UDFs you gave me, I've now managed to put icons in the FileView combo box, I can now also run the .lnk files directly, I just need to fix in a 'back' button, a 'home' button and redesign the form so it actually looks smooth rather than the evil thing it is. I should note that I'm using my own recursive-DIR function for this, all it does differently is that it detects directories and files and gives them different icons. Hopefully the UDFs you gave me will let me put the final pieces together. I posted a Q on MS's VB scripting forums regarding shortcut icons and targets, so hopefully they may have something, even if it's not in pure KiX or needs VBS/WMI then I'd rather do an 'all in' rather than shell out to an external tool to do some of the work. I'm sure in VB it's doable - but I don't know VB all that well, besides, I've started with KiX/KiXforms now - so I'll continue.