Catching events in a worker thread?

Hi all,

I have a windows form that uses an imported COM class to talk to a legacy
system. The COM object works asynchronously - An event is fired when data
has
been returned.

This works fine, except that Im getting too many events fired! Thus my
windows form becomes pretty sluggish and unresponsive, and CPU utilistaion
is pretty high.

Is there any way I can set up another thread to recieve and handle these
events instead? Do threads have event loops? If so, how do I "direct" events
to them?

I have considered starting off a thread each time the event is fired - but
the event handler is pretty trivial so im not sure if this will help (since
starting a thread is more intensive than handling the event). Maybe I should
start a worker thread once at the start and set this to listen for messages
from the main event handler? How would I do that?

Is this even possible? Or am I tackling this in the wrong way?

Thanks!

Spammy