VB6 Help ( ProgressBar )

[PingPong]

Okay So I made a splash screen ( using another form ) in VB.
What I did was set the splash screen form to the starting form.

when the program open, the splash screen form will open.
what happen on that is that a timer will start ticking, and the progress bar value will equal to the timer's value

so this is what I did

Dim Progress As Integer

Did that in Public Class Form2
and in formLoad I enable the timer

and this is what I have for the timer

ProgressBar1.Value = Progress
        If Progress < 100 Then Progress = Progress + 1
        Label4.Text = "Loading : " & Progress & "%"
        If Progress = 100 Then
            Label4.Text = "Loading Completed"
            Timer1.Enabled = False
            Me.Visible = False
            form1.show

so Basically it'll just go up til 100 and when it hits 100% form 1 shows

what I want to do is :
when the program is launch for the firs time, it'll take 10second to load, ( since I made it 100 )
but if the program is then open again, it'll take around 5seconds or less to load, it'll be as if it knows all the information already

so what do I do?

[some1uk03]

why waste the users time in the first place if the loading is fake ?
I personally don't like a splash screen unless it really does load something and it takes time. But just putting a timer, simulation as if its loading something seems a waste of time for me..

But anyway back to the answer:
Just write in the registry somewhere when the app is first launched that it has already been opened once and check against it.

[PingPong]

The SplashScreen Isn't for fake loading.
Sorry if said it somewhere in my post above or if I made it seem like I was trying to make a fake Splash Screen.

The SplashScreen ( form2 ) is use to load up the necessary information for the mainform, it also check to see whether there are new updates or not.

I set the timer to 100 because that take 10 seconds to load up, and I thought that 10 second would be plenty of time.

Thanks for the help but I don't k now how to save the information in a registry.

I found an alternative way though.
I just make 2 timers
and if there are no new updates the timer with the least time starts, because since there are no new updates, not much information will load up