>>4. The app I am supporting runs on a server - each PC is mapped to it, and runs the exe on the server. Would it be a lot faster if the exe were to run on the local PC, and just have the data mapped? And what are the demons to look for in that?
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>Runs on the server?? I'm not so sure about that. It may be stored on the server but it will run locally. Yes, it will be faster to store it locally. Make sure temp files are mapped to a local drive.

Hi Craig

The VFP exe is a sort of loader in itself. It launches, but then keeps extracting modules (scxs etc) to the client. It's that repeated extracting that is slow over the LAN. That's why the launcher makes exe's run faster locally.