Rick Schummer wrote:
>>> VFP will find the runtimes in the application folder before even looking in 
>>> the 
> common folder. So, it'll load a smidgen faster by putting the runtimes in the 
> application folder.<<
> 
> Depends, naturally. If the app folder is on the network and has to pull it 
> over wire, the commons
> folder even being checked second is likely to be faster. I have helped many a 
> developer who work in
> slower network situations to speed up the stating of their app by placing the 
> runtimes on the
> workstation. Can't tell you the number of times someone has called me and 
> said it works fine on my
> machine, but the app crawls on the customer network. 

Yeah, didn't think of that. Then again, I never consider putting the exe on the 
network drive. How do you update the exe without forcing everyone out first? 
Why go 
through the unnecessary network overhead?

Paul


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