Great, I will check into that thankyou! One thing that occured to me with that approach is that I wouldn't be able to rely on a figure like that because the speed of the system would effect the time the animation takes so I couldn' guarentee the animation is gone.
What I was hoping is that somebody might know of a window event or Microsoft Accessibility window event that fires once the animation finishes.
My gut feeling is that windows isn't exposing this information, if anybody runs into this, there is a workaround for the problem if you happen to own the window, you simply store the Location of the Window, set it to something really high like 10000 (it will dissapear immediately), then set it back to the Location you stored earlier when you are done.
Thanks again, Steve