🚀 go-pugleaf

I need a few tips:

i am writing a windows app that should run constantly to take messages. i hope 
to complete the entire thing in vb5. i need help with two things:

the program icon should not be on the main taskbar, but in the special region 
where the clock and volume controls are. i have found a vc function that does 
this, but im not sure how to do it with vb. if you think you might know, i can 
show you all of the documentation for the function and everything.

i want to automatically log on a user by using the corresponding windows logon 
and password. i found an api that gives me the user name, but i dont know how 
to get the windows password. i know that passwords are stored in a pwl file, 
and there is a dll called mspwl something, but i dont know the correct function 
call.

if anybody has any ideas, they would be greatly apprecciated. please respond to 
my email: gglaze@mail.utexas.edu.

thanks.