>You're right, it sure does look bad. We do get customers from time to time >who complain about GPFs. In my experience, about 90% of them get cured by >switching to a new video driver. Yes, that's right, a new video driver. Why >that, you say? You run programs all day long, and only WinBoard crashes? I >don't know all of the technical reasons, but apparently some video support >functions are more robust in some drivers than others. Believe the guy. Some of the GDI windows calls will GPF - and a lot of non-graphical, and some graphical apps never call them. BitBlits are a case in point. If you've got a cheap and nasty video card (Trident springs to mind) with a small amount of ram, that will do it too. MikeS