takes an image and turns it into an autoit usable binary representation, and shellexecutes the au3 (because im set to bring it up in Scite, suppose it will not play nicely if you are set to execute au3s) As always please turn this into something shiny and even more useful, so i can use that. Sorry if there already scripts in abundance that do this. #include <array.au3> #include <file.au3> Global $fixarray $pic = fileopen ("C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\Examples\GUI\merlin.gif"