I have written a very simple program in VB6 (called Pellet.exe) that has an invisible form and closes itself in less than a second. I am calling it from within other programs (some written in VB6, PowerBasic, and TurboPascal) to activate a PCI I/O card. When Pellet.exe runs it causes the PowerBasic and TurboPascal (but not VB) programs that called it to minimize to the task bar. This is not desirable for my situation.

Does anyone know how to prevent the calling programs from minimizing? Keep in mind that I am a beginner, as my username indicates.

Thanks.