Need help with a small simple game??

I have a game, that is basically like mine sweeper, but the thing is is that when you make it load a 25X25 grid it takes a very long time 5-10 seconds. How it is set up is there are 25X25 picture boxes and it just loads one image that many times. Is there any way to speed up or optimise this process???

Thanks alot
Dan

I made a game like this and here's what I did:

3 Picture Boxs for the pictures (all hidden)
and a Bunch of command buttons (visiable)

I would load in pictures form the picture boxes to the command buttons when one was needed. I would keep all the information about where the mines were in a array.

E-Mail me for more information.

I hope this helps some :)