Sleep hangs while outlook loads

[Bert]

I have a start up script that I use to load a few things when I first boot up in the morning. What I'm noticing is the loop hangs for a bit while outlook is loading. I have a 1 year old rig, 4gigs of memory, and not that much running before I run the script. Other than this little performance issue, the PC performs very well. Here is the snippit of script that the problem is occurring:

if ProcessExists("OUTLOOK.EXE")=0 then 
    run("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE")
    $x=1
    TrayTip("", "Waiting on Outlook for "&$x&" second", 1, 1)
endif
while 1
    sleep(1000)
    if WinExists ("Microsoft Outlook", "Salesforce Association Toolbar") then
        $h = run('"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -new-window "https://xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.com/?un=xxxxxxxx%40xxxxxx.com&pw='&$2&'"')
        exitloop
    endif
    if $x=30 then ExitLoop
    $x=$x+1
    TrayTip("", "Waiting on Outlook for "&$x&" seconds", 1, 1)      
wend

What is supposed to happen is the tool tip tells me how many seconds Outlook takes to load before loading Firefox. What I'm noticing is the seconds will tick by like this: 1..2..3..4............5........6..7..8..........9...10..11

Anyone got a suggestion on how to handle this?

[Yoriz]

Try like this so even if it hangs it will give a true amount of time passed when it can update the traytip.

if ProcessExists("OUTLOOK.EXE")=0 then
    run("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE")
    $x=1
    TrayTip("", "Waiting on Outlook for "&$x&" second", 1, 1)
endif
Local $iTimer = TimerInit()
while 1
    sleep(1000)
    if WinExists ("Microsoft Outlook", "Salesforce Association Toolbar") then
        $h = run('"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -new-window "https://xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.com/?un=xxxxxxxx%40xxxxxx.com&pw='&$2&'"')
        exitloop
    endif
    If (TimerDiff($iTimer) / 1000) >=30 then ExitLoop
    TrayTip("", "Waiting on Outlook for "&Round(30-(TimerDiff($iTimer) / 1000))&" seconds", 1, 1)
wend