Hi-

  I'm using VB4/16 bit

  Parts of my app needs to use the entire screen.  So if Win '95 users
have their task bars set to "stay always on top" then they lose some
info at the bottom of the screen.  Is there a way for me to temporarily
hide the task bar?  Is this improper etiquette?  Or should I rely on the
user to resize (i.e. shrink) their task bars?

                            Thanks,
                            Brad Stone

 Brad

Are you displaying a maximised form (WindowState=2) or are you sizing to
Screen.Width and Screen.Height?

Regards
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All you have to do is paste this in the general section of your form.
'---------------------------------------------------------------
Option Explicit

Dim hwnd1 As Long

Private Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long,
ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal cx As
Long, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal
lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long

Const SWP_HIDEWINDOW = &H80

Const SWP_SHOWWINDOW = &H40
'-------------------------------------------------------------
'To hide the task bar use this code.
hwnd1 = FindWindow("Shell_traywnd", "")
Call SetWindowPos(hwnd1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_HIDEWINDOW)
'-------------------------------------------------------------
'Use this to show it again.

Call SetWindowPos(hwnd1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_SHOWWINDOW)