help with resize ing

You need to toggle the window state by using the IF statement. Here's how you can do it:

For hiding your program from the taskbar, use the following command:

Where me is your current form. You can change it with whatever Form you like. To show the form in the taskbar, simply set the value to True.

Hope this helps

So you mean literally remove the taskbar?

change form border style to "none"

Hmm.. I once did a side bar application in which I hide the task bar. Following is the code for the hiding, but unfortunately it works on XP and Vista only. Right now I've 7 installed so, I can't check it. Anyways, here's the MSDN standard API calls to hide and show the task bar:

■ First add these declarations:

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 SWPHIDEWINDOW = & H80
Const SWPSHOWWINDOW = & H40
Dim TaskBarHwnd As Long

■ Then on Form's Load event, add the following line:

TaskBarHwnd = FindWindow( "Shell_traywnd", "")

■ Then add the following sub-procedures that call show and hide the task bar:

Sub HideTaskbar()
Call SetWindowPos(TaskBarHwnd,0 & ,0 & ,0 & ,0 & ,0 & ,SWPHIDEWINDOW)
End Sub

Sub ShowTaskbar()
Call SetWindowPos(TaskBarHwnd,0 & ,0 & ,0 & ,0 & ,0 & ,SWPSHOWWINDOW)
End Sub

■ Finally, call these subs as required !!!

Hope this helps !!