Well it actually did turn out to be the background image making it flicker, I removed the image and the flickering stopped so I played around with it and experimented with bitmaps to png's and it still flickered. Then I found a little form property called double buffer, I set it to true for all of my forms and the flickering is gone no matter what kind of background I use. Thanks for the suggestion about the background image and all the other...

Well the amount of controls varies from one form to another, but the most basic is the login, it just has the back ground image and 2 text boxes with the appropriate labels and a submit button, the tab order is 0,1,2 (username,passw ord,submit respectively). The most control heavy form is the add a new record form with about a dozen text fields and combo boxes, i'll try removing the bg image. The original file is large 1900x1200 and set to auto stretch...

Hey, I am pretty new to VB myself but I believe that you could perhaps add a
listboxname.ite ms.Insert(0,"") after the list has been populated on your form and that would insert a blank line on the first index of your list box.

On one of my apps everytime a person tabs from tab index 0 to 1 the screen flickers, but it only happens once per lifecycle of any particular form, its like it is getting a redraw request or something. Any ideas? It only happens on this particular app, and its just a simple fill in the blanks and update the DB app. It has a background image that is set to stretch with the form if it resizes but no one ever resizes the app anyhow.

Alright, here it is I am trying to write a win32 app in VB 2005 to clean up user's profiles. everything works correctly except for the Delete("directo ry", True) statement. I get a System.IO.Direc toryNotFoundExc eption: Could not find a part of the path. Then it gives me a random file name from the UserProfile\Loc al Settings\Tempor ary Internet Files\Content.I E5\SomeRandomFo lder. This is absolutley driving me nuts. So I am gonn give you...