I suspect it's because the new EXE added a PRG and modified a the structure of a one record DBF.
Almost ready to do a new MSI. I am thinking the registry has some kind the map for the (original) installed MSI EXE, and therefore does a lot of "searching" to make sense out the EXE that overlaid it.
>>I am Terry's Carbon Unit
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>LOL. Please keep references to your unit to yourself out of this family oriented show. ;) If you meant some obscure Star Trek reference, we are all Carbon Units. Lt. Ilia carbon unit was replaced by V'Ger recreation - which was no longer a carbon unit and referred to life forms as carbon units infesting U.S.S. Enterprise, and by extension, Earth and other planets.
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>I do not use procedure libraries. I put each function as its own .PRG. These are found directly by the exe. There was a time that issuing SET PROCEDURE TO was a performance hit. That has been reduced.
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>I have not seen any performance hits caused by replacing old exe with newer one with my setups. I'm using InnoSetup.
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>>>>The IDE FXP crunch performing better than the EXE crunch is unexpected - seen it before - it went away - the cure may be to simpl
e rebuild the MSI and do a proper install.If it was an issue of doubling up or multiple passes then it seems that would present during the IDE FXP tests.
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>>>>Any thoughts appreciated.
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>>>Who are you and what have you done to Terry?
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>>>Real Terry would have at least 35 spelling errors in a text of this size. You made just this token error, but that is not a good disguise.
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