Starting an app on 5.0 : no circular wait cursor ?

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ataha

When I used to open my application on PocketPC 2003 devices, that
circular (busy) cursor used to come up in the middle of the screen
until my application was actually displayed. So the user couldnt hit
the application executable twice and start it again. When the
application was up and running, I use a check to determine if there was
a window with the right title already running and if there is, I put it
in the foreground and exit.

Now on Windows Mobile 5.0, you hit the executable file name and nothing
happens for 5 seconds. In this time, some of our clinical lab
technicians (although they have been told not to) have clicked the
executable again and again because the application hasnt started
immediately. So, the window is not up yet, so the check with the window
title isnt going to work, and yet there is not circular busy cursor..
so how do I prevent the user from starting the application more than
once ?

And where did the circular wait cursor go ?

any help is appreciated
thanks in advance
Taha
 
Not that it helps much, but on my WM 5 device, I get the busy cursor
(beachball) on programs loading, so it hasn't gone away.
 
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