>>My exe is running a top level form in the backgound on my screen. It launches another top level form and both forms come to the foreground on my screen. I'd like them to stay in the backgound until I click on the form's button on my taskbar.
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>Could you keep the form invisible until you want it?

Hi Nancy,
I'm going to play with that idea, but do you have an idea on how I would then make it visible when the user clicked on the taskbar button for the form?