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I want my main script to to spawn another one that displays a simple box with some changeable text and an animated GIF throbber (aka. activity indicator). Something simple like what you get using ProgressOn, with changeable text like it has, but instead of a calibrated progress bar I just want the GIF to play until my script decides to close. I'm hoping one of the more frequent users of this forum can point me to a snippet or example that does this. I found numerous posts here about animated progress bars, transparent GIFs, etc., but they often include comments like "this technique uses a lot of CPU cycles", and the examples contain lots of code that is over my head. Perhaps I'm not searching for the right terms, and am instead getting bogged down in posts that deal with more sophisticated requirements. Google took me to this article that creates the following box that's similar to my goal but it has controls I don't need AND I could not begin to extrapolate his suggestions into Autoit code. For future readers of this post here are a couple of sites that produce nice little animated GIF throbbers. Ajaxload Chimpy