Hi Michael. No problemo and thanks for the very useful link.

I think in your case you need a way to switch off the timer event if a user is busy trying to work on the form. You can do this by waiting for a sufficiently long pause in mouse movement and keyboard use before you enable the timer. Any activity should autmatically disable the timer.

Another (easier) solution is to remove the timer from the form completely. Create the timer seperately and let it run in your app. Then if the user loads the admin form stop the timer and only restart it when the user closes the admin form.

Lots of ways to skin the proverbial cat I suppose :)