>>I have my application which is running completely from the server, i.e.: database, tables, exe, and all related files.
>>
>>So the clients call the app on the server, but for some of them (they have a very slow link) I would like to place on the client the .exe
>>
>>Will this setup (improve) greatly increase the speed at which the forms are displayed and the general response time ?
>>
>>The application runs beautifully on the other clients (which are running either 10 or 100mbps)with great response time.
>>
>>TIA
>
>If the problem is indeed your network connection, then YES this will speed up the drawing of forms, etc. But remember that the data is still accessed over a slow link - so queries may still be slow, etc.
>
>HTH

AFAIK, the only thing that this will speed up is the initial application starup. Once the EXE is in memory, it doesn't need to go back to the server for anything included in the application.

Usually, one of the slowest parts of form instantiation is opening tables and (especially) views. If the tables remain on the server (which they have to) then the performance will still be lacking on slow network connections.