Need help on slowing program down

Hi all,
i am a newb @ c++ since i just started this course in september

i want to ask a question about slowing down a program
is there like a command to do that??
i want it to display a "*" that moves left to right
i have tried alot of stuff and it still didnt work XD
here is my code that runs uber-fast

Code:

         int x = 1;
         do{
               gotoxy(x,1);
               cout << "*" ;
               x ++;
               gotoxy(x - 1,1);
               cout << "  " ;
               gotoxy(x,1);
               cout << "*" ;
                  if( x == 81 ) {
                       x = 1;
                    }
               } while ( x != 0 );
         system("PAUSE");
         return (0);

You might want to try the Sleep() command, which I believe is in the windows.h or conio.c header file :

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <conio.c>
#include <windows.h>

int main()
{
         int x = 1;
         do{
               gotoxy(x,1);
               cout << "*" ;
               x ++;
               Sleep(50);  // This is the only line I touched...
               gotoxy(x - 1,1);
               cout << "  " ;
               gotoxy(x,1);
               cout << "*" ;
                  if( x == 81 ) {
                       x = 1;
                    }
               } while ( x != 0 );
         system("PAUSE");
         return (0);
}

Sleep() according to MSDN : The Sleep function suspends the execution of the current thread for at least the specified interval.

Sleep(int x) where x is the number of milliseconds to pause the program.

Hope this helps,
Korhedron

thanks for the help, Korhedron