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You can use an API call to "Erase" the Title Bar from the form, while still leaving the BoarderStyle set to 2-Sizable. Another set of API calls will then allow you to move the form with the mouse, even without the Title Bar. This will allow you to have a graphic, sizable, movable form without a Title Bar, and still keep both the caption and icon in the taskbar.

Create a new project, and place this code in the form. (Leave the BoarderStyle set to 2-Sizable

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<!---Declaration--->
Option Explicit

'API Calls Used To Remove The Title Bar From Window (Make A Sizeable Borderless Form)
Private Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long
Private Const GWL_STYLE = (-16)
Private Const WS_DLGFRAME = &H400000

'API Calls Used To Move A Form With The Mouse
Private Declare Function ReleaseCapture Lib "user32" () As Long
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long
Private Const HTCAPTION = 2
Private Const WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN = &HA1

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<!---Code--->
Private Sub Form_Load()
'ERASE the Title Bar
SetWindowLong Me.hwnd, GWL_STYLE, GetWindowLong(Me.hwnd, GWL_STYLE) + WS_DLGFRAME
End Sub

Private Sub Form_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
'Move the form with the Left Mouse Button
If Button = 1 Then
Me.MousePointer = vbSizeAll
Call ReleaseCapture
Call SendMessage(hwnd, WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN, HTCAPTION, 0&)
Me.MousePointer = vbArrow
End If
End Sub;


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