>I've done both. If it were cached, the timing would only be an initial spike. It remained slow throughout thousands of calls versus the local exe. Filemon shows every exe embedded component is accessed as if it were a seperate file. The consistently slower timing suggests to me that the file is being sent across the wire every time and caching is not affecting it.

Thx Mike - something learned even if it only confirms my take of "best practice".

regards

thomas