[Wirestealth]

Sorry as my last post had @DION and @DARKER mixed up.

@DARKER: Well I totally overthought this. I thought I would try your suggestion and see how bad the flicker was from frmAbout...well, and I should have thought of this from regular VB programming) since I jump to the OK button click event before I return from the load of frmAbout the form has yet to be made visible on screen and so the message queue gets the frmAbout.Hide added to it and apparently is processed before it is even made visible so that is all that was needed!

Thanks for the suggestion as I was totally making it more difficult than need be. I should have learned from the Tuts that you try the easiest approach first and work from there :P.