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I have a third-party component I am using to make an icon for my app in the Windows 95 system tray. This works great, except that I need to be able to hide the application from the taskbar. How can I do this?

Answer:
The simplest way to keep an application from showing up on the taskbar inWin95 or NT is to set the BorderStyle property of your main form tobsToolWin. Tool windows by default do not show up on the taskbar.

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