Its got to be a borderstyle 2 or Windows thinks the app is a dialog, not an 
app, and therefore won't show it in the taskbar.  You might be able to tweak 
the window style with SetWindowLong, but I don't have the code for that. Try 
www.codehound.com/vb/

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Randy Birch
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http://vbnet.mvps.org/
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"John Guarnieri"  wrote in message 
news:IvSdnf-6j5tp4XPdRVn-sQ{at}adelphia.com...
: Actually that didn't work. I see it in the vb enviorment but not in my 
exe.
: Also I'm useing skins so I cant set my borderstyle to 2
:
:
:
: "Randy Birch"  wrote in message
: news:kdcHc.103763$rCA1.52519{at}news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
: > 1) set your form's borderstyle to 2
: > 2) set showintaskbar to true
: > 3) don't show the form modally.
: >
: > -- 
: >
: > Randy Birch
: > MVP Visual Basic
: > http://vbnet.mvps.org/
: > Please respond only to the newsgroups so all can benefit.
: >
: >
: > "John Guarnieri"  wrote in message
: > news:atGdnfpR5sYlunDdRVn-uw{at}adelphia.com...
: > : Hi All,
: > : I wrote a program in VB 6 Pro and I was wondering how I can get it to
: show
: > : up in the window that tells you what programs are available to switch 
to
: > : when I do an alt tab.
: > : Sometimes the only way I can find my program after I minimize it to 
the
: > : system tray is to do a ctr alt del and I'll find it as a running
: > application
: > : and then I have to do a switch to. I hope I explained this clearly
: enough.
: > : TIA
: > :
: > : John
: > :
: > :
: >
:
:
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