I have questions about the common controls as well. I got a few things working (trackbar, updown buttons), but I had to make my own header with all the defines from comctrl.h. However, my question is about getting the XP look and feel to common controls by using the comctrl32.dll version 6.0.0.0. I posted my question in "Ask Conitec"

Nevermind. I got this to work using an external manifest (see linked post)