in a .vbs how do you keep a display window open?

Question

I have a .vbs script that works great, except that I want a display window of the steps without the script stopping or closing the window.

Since I don't know how to do this, I wrote something like this prior to each step:

DisplayMessage = CrLf & _
   "Step 1: Blah, blah, blah"  & DoubleCrLf & _
    oShell.CurrentDirectory & CrLf
oShell.Popup DisplayMessage, 2, "Script Process"

As you know, this pops up a window with the message and pauses for 2 seconds, then closes the window.

What I do is continually add to DisplayMessage what I want displayed and do the popup again.

This works, except for two issues. First, there's a lot of pausing going on because if I don't pause I miss the message. Second, if the step takes several seconds to process I don't have a window to look at telling me what step is being executed. It pops it up, pauses and then closes the window.

What I'd like is some kind of native looking window that is always displayed, that changes the mouse to the "processing"/"waiting" circle and maybe even a process completed percentage bar (although this and the mouse-circle are not necessary).

Can I do this in vbs or will I need to write it in something else?

TIA