Guys, help. This is more of an irritating issue than the critical one. I'd like to get it done, but I'll manage without it as well. If I get it done with your help, I'll probably overuse it other places as well, but what the heck...

I have a client component written in VB6 and some operations are more time consuming than others. So I thought I'd try to display a modal dialog with no buttons and preferably some sort of icon and obviously little text letting the user know something is happening. Hourglass on mouse icon simply doesnt do it for me anymore. Sort of like the dialog you get when you enable a disabled LAN connection in Win2K/XP, just some text basically - no buttons. There's gotta be some Shell/WinAPI function that does something like this

Hope I made myself fairly clear and thanks a bunch.