Birthday Reminder

Hi friends!

I have average knowledge of VB. I want to write a VB program code where one reminds me the birthday of my friends.But I need this as a background process where the program reminds me atleast 5 times in a day.I mean that I should not execute the program everytime to check whether I have missed anybody's birthday.I should be reminded/alerted when the system is logged in.Please help me or suggest me how to do this.Please also suggest if there is any similar program,like Bills Payable reminder.

Thanks in Advance
Aravind

Yes its simple. You just need to create a registry entry in your computer. Goto to Start-> Run and type
regedit

Registry editor opens up. THen goto
----HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
--SOFTWARE
--Microsoft
---Windows
---Current Version
---Run

In run Create a new key .ie. mean
right click in open space in right window(having icon 'ab')
and create key .
Give key any name U like. And its value must be set to the path of Ur program that U want to run at startup. This program can be anywhere on Ur computer.
Well, in Ur birthday reminder program when it opens first check if today is the birthday of any of ur's friend. If yes then display a form showing various details else
u can exit or running in background to delay for particular amount of time and redisplay Ur message.