Hilmar,
>>The exe run from the server causes network traffic not just at the start, but continuously while the app runs, everytime the user starts a new form, or prg or whatever.
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>Won't the entire EXE eventually be in the local memory buffer? Assuming all the components are embedded in the EXE.

just visualize an EXE with several included lookup tables in the megabyte range - be glad it won't stay in memory of a starved laptop<g>. The vfp exe is an App with an Exe-Stub added to load the runtime if the runtime is not already loaded.

regards

thomas