Range in .Select() not working on xlApp.ActiveWindow.FreezePanes - vb.net

Question

I just want to select A1 to A3 to freeze pane. But xlApp.ActiveWindow.FreezePanes freezes A1 to A10. I was experimenting for 3 hours is this line of code for 3 hours:
xlApp.Range("A1:A3").Select()
But still A1 to A10 are the cells that are freeze. I just want to freeze A1 to A3. Is this possible? Im using Visual Studio 2012 and Excel 2013
Here is my code:
Imports System.Data.OleDb
Imports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'TODO: This line of code loads data into the 'AccessdbtestDataSet.country' table. You can move, or remove it, as needed.
Me.CountryTableAdapter.Fill(Me.AccessdbtestDataSet.country)
Dim con As New OleDbConnection
Dim query As String = "SELECT * FROM country"
con.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=accessdbtest.accdb"
con.Open()
Dim dt As New DataTable
Dim ds As New DataSet
ds.Tables.Add(dt)
Dim da As New OleDbDataAdapter(query, con)
da.Fill(dt)
DataGridView1.DataSource = ds.Tables(0)
con.Close()
End Sub
Private Sub Button3_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlWorkBook As Excel.Workbook
Dim xlWorkSheet As Excel.Worksheet
Dim misValue As Object = System.Reflection.Missing.Value
Dim i As Integer
Dim j As Integer
Dim xlCenter As String = "center"
xlApp = New Excel.ApplicationClass
xlWorkBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Add(misValue)
xlWorkSheet = xlWorkBook.Sheets("sheet1")
//Merging cells
xlWorkSheet.Range("A1:D1").MergeCells = True
xlWorkSheet.Range("A2:D2").MergeCells = True
xlWorkSheet.Range("A3:D3").MergeCells = True
//Assigning text to the merge cells
xlWorkSheet.Cells(1, 1) = "Republic of the Philippines"
xlWorkSheet.Cells(2, 1) = "NCR"
xlWorkSheet.Cells(3, 1) = "Manila"
//Put the text in the center of the merge cells
xlWorkSheet.Range("A1:A1").HorizontalAlignment = Excel.XlVAlign.xlVAlignCenter
xlWorkSheet.Range("A2:A2").HorizontalAlignment = Excel.XlVAlign.xlVAlignCenter
xlWorkSheet.Range("A3:A3").HorizontalAlignment = Excel.XlVAlign.xlVAlignCenter
For i = 5 To DataGridView1.RowCount - 2
For j = 0 To DataGridView1.ColumnCount - 1
xlWorkSheet.Cells(i + 1, j + 1) = _
DataGridView1(j, i - 3).Value.ToString()
Next
Next
//This line of code is not working <-------------------------<|
xlApp.Range("A1:A3").Select()
xlApp.ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = True
xlWorkSheet.SaveAs("C:\excel\vbexcel.xlsx")
xlWorkBook.Close()
xlApp.Quit()
releaseObject(xlApp)
releaseObject(xlWorkBook)
releaseObject(xlWorkSheet)
MsgBox("You can find the file C:\vbexcel.xlsx")
End Sub
Private Sub releaseObject(ByVal obj As Object)
Try
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(obj)
obj = Nothing
Catch ex As Exception
obj = Nothing
Finally
GC.Collect()
End Try
End Sub
End Class

Answer 1

xlApp.Range("A4").Select
Then apply the freeze panes.