>>Our PC have 1GB RAM, the user's PC has 256 MB.
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>To create comparable scenario, create another bootoption in your boot.ini
>with /maxmem=256
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>Take a HARD look at installed OS / protocols. In some scenarios just having NetBEUI as well tripled performance. Verify same netork speed and single/duplex setting. Also check Pathing issues - especially id you were testing in the IDE and have code working of version(2).
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>On the user machine, check the temp location, amount of free space, defrag to get continuos space. Check compression/encoding settings on the target folders. Kill *everyting* living/moving in the task bar - that includes the firewall and AV for at least a few test runs. Run with task manager visible besides the form and kernel times showing.
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>UPDATE:
>the view dbc locally can help big time, but the differences will mostly be seen when running many users concurrently. Temp dir I consider part of pathing <g>, but I assume the exe is running locally ? give it a nice config.fpw
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>regards
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>thomas

My colleague told me, that they replaced the Network card and the performance became much better.

That's a trick, actually. Give the user the worst performance possible at first, then fix it and the users will appreciate the software very much < g >