{ Pop this procedure into your main form's unit and call it from your FormCreate procedure. Under Win95 or WinNT w/Win95 shell, your main form will fit perfectly in the client area of the screen in a wsNormal state. The only parm for the proc is the name of your main form. If Win95 or WinNT/wWin95 shell is NOT running, your form will open in a wsMaximized state. This may or may not be the only way to accomplish this task, but it works. Freeware. No guarantees, promises or responsibility. Use to your heart's content. Just give me credit: Peter M. Jagielski 73737,1761@compuserve.com } procedure SizeForTaskBar(MyForm: TForm); var TaskBarHandle: HWnd; { Handle to the Win95 Taskbar } TaskBarCoord: TRect; { Coordinates of the Win95 Taskbar } CxScreen, { Width of screen in pixels } CyScreen, { Height of screen in pixels } CxFullScreen, { Width of client area in pixels } CyFullScreen, { Heigth of client area in pixels } CyCaption: Integer; { Height of a window's title bar in pixels } begin TaskBarHandle := FindWindow('Shell_TrayWnd',Nil); { Get Win95 Taskbar handle } if TaskBarHandle = 0 then { We're running Win 3.x or WinNT w/o Win95 shell, so just maximize } MyForm.WindowState := wsMaximized else { We're running Win95 or WinNT w/Win95 shell } begin MyForm.WindowState := wsNormal; GetWindowRect(TaskBarHandle,TaskBarCoord); { Get coordinates of Win95 Taskbar } CxScreen := GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN); { Get various screen dimensions and set form's width/height } CyScreen := GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN); CxFullScreen := GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXFULLSCREEN); CyFullScreen := GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYFULLSCREEN); CyCaption := GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYCAPTION); MyForm.Width := CxScreen - (CxScreen - CxFullScreen) + 1; MyForm.Height := CyScreen - (CyScreen - CyFullScreen) + CyCaption + 1; MyForm.Top := 0; MyForm.Left := 0; if (TaskBarCoord.Top = -2) and (TaskBarCoord.Left = -2) then { Taskbar on either top or left } if TaskBarCoord.Right > TaskBarCoord.Bottom then { Taskbar on top } MyForm.Top := TaskBarCoord.Bottom else { Taskbar on left } MyForm.Left := TaskBarCoord.Right; end; end;