Using a timer:
1:Add a timer from your component toolbox to your form.
2:Set the inteval to 10,000 (this is in milliseconds, 1000 = 1 second)
3:In the timers' "Tick" event, write this code:
Timer1.stop 'This assumes your timer it named Timer1
Me.Cursor = Cursors.Default
4: When you want to make it show the cursor, either have a method to do both these lines and call the method or just write these 2 lines all over the place:
Me.Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor
Timer1.Start