hi you all, I am totally new, and i tried it for days now in VB2005 (free one ). Like the topic already said i want to make a program that press a keybord key every minute for a program that is running on the background (small window, half the size of the total screen). I also searched alot on the web, and finally found this one: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/35341-creating-a-timer-program-using-visual-basic-2005/ I hope you guys could refine it a bit to the thing I mentioned above because i cant figure it out (a pitty!!!!) greets Tim