VB6 Help ( ProgressBar )

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

Code:

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Dim Progress As Integer

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

and this is what I have for the timer

Code:

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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

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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?

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.

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