ilmcuts: Already thought of it, and dismissed that idea. That would mean no benefits: Skins must then still be made specifically for 9x users, since 9x won't support real alpha transparency. That means also conditionally loading rc files for 9x and 2k... additional work. As the purpose of replacing shortcut2.dll with layercuts is to cut down on the time it takes to make a skin by not having to make buttons for each skin, all benefits of layercuts integration would be lost and even reversed if I used a conditional loadmodule statement. So it's either a XP/2K only theme, or I'll continue making skins the old tedious way.