Yesterday I posted this: http://www.vb-world.net/ubb/Forum1/HTML/010481.html

Serge's code works fine but the problem is that the program is totally inactive untill the executable is loaded completely...
this should not be the case because I want to display an animation in that period...

I was told this was because of the "Do Untill"-loop.
I deleted this loop and made a timer flash a picture (the whole time)to check if the halting of the program was gone... It was not; as soon as I shell-execute an exacutable the timer events halt untill the execuatble is loaded. When it is loaded the timer events resume.

So this is probably the problem: how can I/can I display an animation while I executable is being shell-executed

Hope someone can solve this one....