Moving Multiple Picture Boxes - lag?

[Disyne]

On my form I have a control array of 239 picture boxes NOT being moved. Then I create 5 picture boxes of a new control array and move them with a timer with the interval set to 10. It moves fine, but when I load another 5 picture boxes totaling 10 the game starts to lag by the images starting to move slower then set to. The more I load and more the slower it keeps getting.

I am increasing the .top of all of the picture boxes by 25 every time the timer ticks with a 10 interval.

How can I prevent this 'lag'?

[Edgemeal]

Not sure this helps your situation but in a program I have that moves a large array of labels I toggle the .visible property before and after the move and it helped speed up the moving.

For i = 0 To Lbl.Count -1
    Lbl(i).Visible = False
    Lbl(i).Top = Lbl(i).Top - 1    
    Lbl(i).Visible = True
Next i

[chunk]

here is something i have for you, in this attachment