I am looking for a way to hide my exe from task managers "applications" tab, but leave it in the "processes" tab in Visual Basic 6... im fairly new to the program, so keep it simple
(sorry if this is wrong palce to post this)

any help would be appreciated,
-matt

Use RegisterServiceProcess in conjunction with GetCurrentProcessId.

Private Declare Function RegisterServiceProcess Lib "kernel32.dll" (ByVal dwProcessId As Long, ByVal dwType As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetCurrentProcessId Lib "kernel32.dll" () As Long

Then use something like this to toggle it:

Sub ShowInTaskList(ByVal bShowInTaskList As Boolean)
    RegisterServiceProcess GetCurrentProcessId, IIf(bShowInTaskList, 0, 1)
End Sub