Allowing a method to timeout

Hi All.

I am finding that my win32 call to SystemParametersInfo in my
FormClosing event handler sometimes hangs my application preventing it
from terminating. Is there a way where I could make the call but after a
timeout period then continue executing the rest of my FormClosing code? 

Place this in a thread? I'd like to make the solution generic enough so
that I could timeout any method.

Any ideas?

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