I'm surprised this isn't a properly, looks like you have to go down into the Win32 API.

Could you use a DataGridView instead?

Alex,

Actually found some code that works.

In the ColumnWidth Changed event:

        Static blnChangeWidth As Boolean = True

        If blnChangeWidth = True Then
            If e.ColumnIndex = 7 Then
                blnChangeWidth = False
                lvwCurrentAlarms.Columns(e.ColumnIndex).Width = 0
                blnChangeWidth = True
            End If
        End If

Then in the ColumnWidthChanging event:

e.Cancel = True

That's a nice workaround, I think I saw something similar, just didn't have a chance to try it out.
Does it still let you use the grabber to change the width then just snaps back to the original size?

It completely surpresses the resize so there is no noticible chang in the width. Curser still changes but that's not too important. The column I don't want resized is actually a hidden column for the full path to a media file.

Nice find.