>Hi,
> I have a program that need to load MS Outlook and startup, it takes very long time in order to user could see the main screen...about 20-30 seconds....
> How could I tell user that my program is loading but not hang? I tried to use animation by timer and animation.ocx, but it don work properly... the animation don move when loading MS Outlook ....
> Any suggestion?

which animation control did you try
I just tested the one that shipped with VFP6 (MSComCTL.Animation.2)
with an .AVI file from the samples and it seems to work ok

Arnon