using Timers

I hav a question again..

As i mentioned i hav to get an event periodically executed and so i am using thread/timers.

I want my Tick_event of the timer be executed completely b4 the Tick_Event is fired again when the timer resets.

How can i do this.I know its possible by using wait but i want to use some method that will check whether the event had completeed its execution or not. I tried checking the Process execution but it gives only the main thread class process in task manager.

Any help is appreciated.