Add menu item to system menu of excel imported form [SOLVED]

[droopy928gt]

I'm trying to achieve above 2 items but can't find out how. I've searched this forum already but also can't find anything relevant so am hoping that some of you might be able to kick me in the right direction.

I'm creating a combined VB6 and excel application. Basically VB6 controls excel. The forms used are imports from existing excel applications where I didn't feel like recreating them all over again. Part from that, the excel tab control is way better and easier to use then the VB6 one.

Progress timer:
When starting the program I want to show a progress timer because the program needs to initialize many items and arrays used. I thus created a simple progress timer which depending makes certain pictures visible which form a simple progress bar. The timer used is the VB6 timer option since there's nothing relevant like that from excel. This works well in itself but the problem is with display of the timer. During start it shows the form on which it was created but the timer only starts working after all has been initialized which basically defeats its purpose. Does anybody have any idea how to conquer this one.

Add item to top left window menu:
I want to add a About option to the top / left menu of my program window, the one also containing the minimize and maximize options. I've seen it done in other programs and since it is the only menu item I need I would prefer to do it this way also. I can't however find any information on how to go about this. Hope that someone can give me a push in the right direction for this one as well.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Best regards,

Leon