Jooel, well, my project "for the week" is to get back to that thingie that you noticed quite some time ago. Remember the problem when one uses WKIX32.EXE and GUI ActiveX servers (forms, etc). When one does a SHOW on a window, for some reason, it ACTIVATES the wkix32.exe console. It doesn't look to be a problem with just forms, per se. I've been able to reproduce this problem when using wkix32 and Internet Explorer. If one fires of IE from wkix32, then makes the form VISIBLE, the console appears. Would really like to get to the bottom of this one.