Hi
Maybe on the wrong track here, but I have seen similar effects before.
I think this is due to my windows settings rather than settings in VB. I need to use a larger font on my computer because it has such a high resolution that I can't even find the text let alone read it. Anyway, with my 'cure' for that, then VB doesn't behave quite normally. For example, I design a Form of a large size then when running the application, controls are 'off screen' etc and unusable etc.
In these cases, all I needed to do, once I discovered it, was to go ahead and design as needed, but, before running the code, resize the Form in the designer to a small size and do any other resizing in code, making the Form size back to desired - this stopped VB from losing the controls and everything seems to be OK.
As I said, maybe this is not the kind of issue you are seeing, if so just ignore this post.