Im really new at customizing DesktopX themese, and even newer at VBscript. When I bring up microsoft agents I generally get laughed at, but the truth is I like them, my kids like them, and my system has the resources ot run them without problems. So why not? My problem tho is making then work in DesktopX. I can refernce trhe control, and initialize the characters ok in VB, after that of course the controls are a snap.. but I can seem to get them in desktopx.. Anyone feel like taking a few minutes to give me a small samlpe code to call one up?