on my program i am getting the following wrroe message: C:\MyDocuments\Sp\SP.cpp(2) : error C2143: syntax error : missing '';'' before ''<'' line 2 of my code is my includes and there shouldn''t be a semicolon here is line 1,2,3 //Includes pretty odd could someone give a reason for this?

It isn''t an error in the include line. It is an error inside of your included header file. Look inside of the header for a missing semi-colon.

Rock

i doubt it..its windows.h and windowsx.h...the msg board didnt print it. thats all of the header files in project so far

It''s because you didn''t put in the #include preprocessor directive. You just have
<windows.h>
Try
#include <windows.h>