>>I will, however, agree that I don't thing that performance would be an issue. In fact, there are some other things (smaller footprint for one perhaps?) that might be gained.
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>And how much of this footprint bloat is from backward compatibility?!?!? I would like to start seeing the removal of Foxbase/xBase obsolesence. IMHO, if you can't have converted [or at least started] to new tech by now, why are you using VFP?

I have no way of know how much of that bloat is from the backward compatibility. However, a lot of code that used to "hot-wire" (so to speak) Windows messaging services might be able to be dropped.