My problem is that, as I am loading about 20-30 web user controls, the page takes 25-30 seconds to load the first time. I thought that if I thread the for loop that loads these web user controls, the loading time would be decreased significantly. Of course the problem then is that I dont actually want to add the web user control until it has been loaded. So I want seperate threads to load the web user controls, but I want my code to continue only after all the threads have finished. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Jagdip