When loading some "fairly" intensive forms I cannot get a timer control to run its code - I would like to flash a caption of a commandbox and because of the form loading this timer control will not launch - I have tested without the forms loading and this timer launches fine - Is it possible that VB 6.0 just will not run a timer under "fairly" intensive processor activity or is there another alternative to this action - Is there a way to just make a form appear without having to load all the background data captures that take places? It is just a tiny little chunk of code in the timers sub I cannot believe this is a processing overflow issue - any help would be appreciated.