Thanks to all who responded. I think I will use a form launcher as I have already tried a simplified version just to see it it would work. Also, 99% of the time I'm calling my messageform from these external programs to inform the user of some information like "Update Complete", etc. So it should be pretty simple just for this one form, might even change all the calls to this form to be handled by the form launcher. I already use one for most of the forms in my apps that cascade each form as new ones are opened.