Good Morning all, Have a weird problem and not able to find the source of it or a fix, googled quite a bit and looked over this forum too..... I have got a simple HTA with a textarea : <html><head><title>HTA TEST</title><HTA:APPLICATIONID="HTA TES"APPLICATIONNAME="HTA TES"SCROLL="yes"SINGLEINSTANCE="yes"WINDOWSTATE="maximize"></head><script Language="VBScript"></SCRIPT><body><textarea name="BasicTextArea" rows="5" cols="75"></textarea></body></html> Now let say I want to edit some of the text inside the TextArea, for example I type : "I am gooing shopping" , let say I want to remove one of the 'o' in going : a) I place my cursor (using the mouse or directions keys) just after the first o and hit the DELETE key I place my cursor (using the mouse or directions keys) just after the second o and hit the BACKSPACE key Now this works on Internet Explorer 6 & 7 on a Windows XP machine BUT option a) does not work on WinPe (XP SP2 version) , the delete key just does nothing ; same issue with the Insert Key. The backsapece key does its job all ok. So I modified my HTA do intercept on keyPress , KeyDown,.... and the keycode 46 is indeed seen by the HTA but it is not interpreted; anyone has seen that before ?? is there a workaround ? Cheers bob