Tim,

Are you sure your timer was firing?

I think it's better to just use a wrapper object that calls doevents every N iterations. The code is over on my website in the FastDoevents article.

>I have an action in the application taht takes 5 minutes or so to run.
>While running I update a list box with the status of the actions. During some longer actions I show a progress bar. This all works ok until I switch to another application and then back.
>
>At this point the application appears to hang with "not repsonding" on the title bar. I can see it's till processing because entries are being created in the database.
>
>Is there anything I can do to fix this?
>
>I tried a timer with DOEVENTS and thisform.refresh but it didn't work.