program stops responding

My program grabs id3 tags out of MP3's and stores them in a database. When i do my intial storing of id3 tags, which requires opening around 1000 files and grabbing the tags my program will appear as "Not responding" in task manager. It will still work again though and once it finishes the process it appears as "Running". I am assuming that this is a sytem resource problem? Just wondering if there is a way i can free up some resources??

I wopuld suggest you use doevents

Ok, thanks for that, i will give it a shot