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