>>>There was a neat old trick for this on slow networks: make the exe read-only. It's not network access per se that's slow, it's the checking for locks. Since nobody is changing the exe (but the installer), setting it read-only will just tell the network not to bother with locks.
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>>Is it enough to have the exe on a readonly drive (or in a readonly folder) or must the file itself explicitly be readonly?
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>Didn't try any but the last, so I wouldn't really know.
No theoretical hunch here?
A customer is complaining about a slow network. There are 250 users synchronically using a vfp app. It probably isn't the vfp app that's causing the trouble, but if it is then I might be of help with this tip. However, the app is in a readonly folder (actually on a readonly drive) and testing would involve the cooperation of network operators and it must not disturb operations.
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