diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index 9839b6949c..6ebbfa73e2 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -616,6 +616,7 @@ wxMSW:
 - Fix best height of wxSlider with labels but without ticks (Artur Wieczorek).
 - Fix initial text value of wxSpinCtrlDouble (Laurent Poujoulat).
 - Fix best size calculation for bitmaps with buttons (Artur Wieczorek).
+- Fix flicker when resizing windows with status bar (Artur Wieczorek).
 - Fix size of the icon returned from wxFSVolume::GetIcon() (troelsk).
 - Fix autosize after expanding/collapsing items in wxDataViewCtrl (ciglesias).
 - Fix inserting tools removed from wxToolBar back into it (sbrowne).
diff --git a/src/msw/frame.cpp b/src/msw/frame.cpp
index 113420452e..6afeb7794a 100644
--- a/src/msw/frame.cpp
+++ b/src/msw/frame.cpp
@@ -286,16 +286,6 @@ void wxFrame::PositionStatusBar()
     int w, h;
     GetClientSize(&w, &h);
 
-    // Resize the status bar to its default height, as it could have been set
-    // to a wrong value before by WM_SIZE sent during the frame creation and
-    // our status bars preserve their programmatically set size to avoid being
-    // resized by DefWindowProc() to the full window width, so if we didn't do
-    // this here, the status bar would retain the possibly wrong current height.
-    m_frameStatusBar->SetSize(wxDefaultSize, wxSIZE_AUTO_HEIGHT);
-
-    int sw, sh;
-    m_frameStatusBar->GetSize(&sw, &sh);
-
     int x = 0;
 #if wxUSE_TOOLBAR
     wxToolBar * const toolbar = GetToolBar();
@@ -319,6 +309,16 @@ void wxFrame::PositionStatusBar()
     //else: no adjustments necessary for the toolbar on top
 #endif // wxUSE_TOOLBAR
 
+    // Resize the status bar to its default height, as it could have been set
+    // to a wrong value before by WM_SIZE sent during the frame creation and
+    // our status bars preserve their programmatically set size to avoid being
+    // resized by DefWindowProc() to the full window width, so if we didn't do
+    // this here, the status bar would retain the possibly wrong current height.
+    m_frameStatusBar->SetSize(x, h, w, wxDefaultCoord, wxSIZE_AUTO_HEIGHT);
+
+    int sw, sh;
+    m_frameStatusBar->GetSize(&sw, &sh);
+
     // Since we wish the status bar to be directly under the client area,
     // we use the adjusted sizes without using wxSIZE_NO_ADJUSTMENTS.
     m_frameStatusBar->SetSize(x, h, w, sh);