I totally understand how it works. It's the initial load that's slow. But a bigger issue is storing temp files on the server. That can make the entire application much slower.

>Hi Craig
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>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.