Hi this seems to be a tough one for me but i hope someone here can help

i have a huge list of images (huge being well over 1000)

what would be the fastest way to load them imto VB??
at the moment it goes through this list picture by picture then it loads each images into a picture box like this
picture(n).picture = loadpicture(selected & ".gif")
selected is the name of the image that is to be loaded ehich is the 1 it is up to in the list

ne suggestions??
martyn