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Hi At ill behaved controls, I mean, controls that seems to be controls but are not really controls or whatever,Au3Info gets at best title, class, ID, etc., but is not able to get the text in the control. This happens more frequently than desirable in real life. Two examples: windows explorer or any browser, like Chrome. On my specific case, a vb program that I have no source code, but au3info reports ID, class, etc. Note that in a browser, like Chrome, if I select with mouse an area of screen and copy, I can paste it in notepad.... So, seems to me that standard windows functions can see/read the text that we are seeing at screen. Question: after many uncessfull searches at forum, I could not find a way to get that kind of text, and I´m quite sure that long time ago I read a post about reading any text that is "visible" at a screen. There is a way, even if some garbage come along with text? I devise a not elegant and unreliable way to do it: (ex: chrome) -> 1-move mouse to about the beginning of the area you want. 2-make left button down. 3-move mouse to about the final area you want. 3-send <ctrlC> 4- you have the text at clipboard... There is a better way? There is a way to read more complex controls, like windows explorer (<ctr>C would not work on this case and many others. Thanks Jose