>When running my VB apps, I would prefer that they are not shown as a button on the windows taskbar but as an Icon on the winows taskbar Icon tray. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance for any help.

there are a few articles on this on msdn. i was looking at them yesterday and the examples are in vb. unfortunatly i couldn't get them to work in vfp ( my goal ) but if the examples work, you should be good to go.

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