Hi all If I drag and drop a file from an explorer window to a "Shell.Explorer.2" object that is created within a form : it works If I try the same drag and drop to a "Shell.Explorer.2" object that is created within a tab : it does NOT work I tested it under Windows 7 and Windows XP as administrator : same behaviour on both systems My problem can be understood with the following example code where you can see 2 "Shell.Explorer.2" objects. One is directly created in the form while the other one