You can report information to the user using the MessageBox() function. It has a timeout parameter.

Aloha,

James
>I mostly do fairly simple VB coding, so the following is beyond me.
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>I have a single form that starts, the user presses a button to execute the code, when it's finished, he closes the form by pressing the X in the top right. This give the user a chance to look at the before and after stats on the form.
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>I want to make it semi-automatic, if after the form has displayed for some number of seconds, and nothing has happened, I want the button to disable itsef and the code to start running automatically. After the code has finished, I again want to count seconds, and then have the form terminate itself and the program to end.
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>This way the progam can run unattended.