Day-by-Day Countdown?

a few questions
1) how would i get the current day, then get how many days are left until a certain date?
2) how would i make the back colour of a form transparent, and only be able to see the from image (which is a transparent GIF image)
3) how would i make the program run automatically every time the computer starts up?

This is quite important to get done asap, so please help if you can.

Cheers

1)
Current day:

Day(Date)

Date returns the current date, and the Day() function returns the day part of that.

To get the difference, look into the DateDiff() function. I forget the syntax of this, and the options, immediately after using it, but it is pretty simple.

2) Don't know, though I've seen threads on this here.

3)Put the program in the startup folder.