Show user's Name & ID in the About box

Hi,
I'm a beginning VB programmer. I'd like to add a way for my users to register my program and show the info in the About box.

How can I keep user's 'Name' na 'Registration ID' global to the program once I read them from the registry?
Right now I read the values from the registry EACH TIME user opens the About box. This isn't very efficient. I want to read them ONLY ONCE - when the program starts, and STORE them in some kind of global place, so when I unload a form the information doesn't get lost.

Also what's the prefered way to close the About box: Load/Unload or Show/Hide.

Thanx for your help.
Tomexx

ok u have to grap the info from some place, even if u stored them in a file, then u will read the file again, and i think if u use unload it's much better than just hide

Why don't you read them when the user starts the program and then copy them to a Public Variable? Then you load from the Public Variable each time you open the About Box.

Code:

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Public UserName As String
Public RegID As String

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Now in your Main form, load the values from the Registry using whichever method you prefer and then assign that value to UserName and RegID.

Code:

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Private Sub Form1_Activate()

    ' Get values from the Registry and assign them to
    ' our Public Variables
    UserName = FunctionToGetNameFromRegistry
    RegID = FunctionToGetREGIDFromRegistry

End Sub

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Now load them from these Variables in your AboutBox.

Code:

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Private Sub frmAboutBox_Activate()

    ' Get the values frm the variable and display them
    lblUserName = UserName
    lblRegID = RegID
 
End Sub

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Thanks Megatron,
Should I Load/Unload or Show/Hide the About box?