Many big buttons slowing down Form..

Question

Hello all. I'm making an Air Hockey game in C# However, i'm a newbie to the language. I have a lot of large buttons on a form to enter in your name (see it here: http://homepage.eircom.net/~basquilletj/NameScreen.PNG). I know the buttons are very big but as a game, i really need to fill out most of the screen. Anyways, all these buttons seems to slow down the form loading - any suggestions on how to fix this? Many thanks in advance. Any suggestions welcome! PS - Also, anyone have some good links to sites with tutorials / examples of games programming using GDI+ besides the C# Corner site?