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Streamlining a VB6 application

I have written a simple little API program to trap HotKeys and launch applications. When compiled the executable is 24K but when running in memory it's over 3Meg. I can't quite see the reason for the pregnancy. My question is this, "What is the best way to minimize the overhead of a simple VB program?". I'm writing this to run in a terminal server environment and I don't really want to hack out 90MB (30 users) if I don't have to.

What do I need to know you guru's??

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Kinger247

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sifugreg

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Guess that was part of the question. "are there any unnecessary reference files loading". There are no controls on the form sans a single button. I'ts just something that remains hidden in memeory and monitors API. When you compile, does anything go into the .exe that is not on the form specifically? Wondering if deselecting anything in Project References would help but now that I go look there isn't much there.

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sifugreg

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Okay, I guess if all three of you agree, it must be the way it is. Remember when software came on 360K floppies?

Kinger247

oh yes ! those where the days .. but then, 360k was allot in our eyes then,

Arthur_Wood

I once was on an assignment (many, many moons ago) at the US Army Tank Automotive Command - in Detroit, MI. That is where the Army conducts all of the Engineering and design testing on Tank designs. At the time, they had a Prime Mini-computer (anyone here remember Prime, or Data General or even DEC???). It was one of the LARGEST Prime systems in the world and they had 1 Gigabyte of hard disk storage !!!!! Back then that was HUGE. Oh, how times have changed, in a mere 25 years LOL.

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Kinger247

Times have changed huge just in the last 10, I think.

I remember a server bring as big as a waredrobe. With a 2 inch electrical cable stuffed in the side.

sifugreg

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Definately remember the DEC but how many of you remember the first 10mb drive called the Gorilla Banana I believe it was Or was that a printer for commodore.. Wow, the memory fades but I remember MFM and RLL 30mb drives with their "stiction" problem where you had to smack the crap out of them to get the data to cross. Back when we had to use debug to low level format a disk. I believe we all walked uphill in the snow both directions back then too. ;-)

Interesting tidbit, I wen out and found a little program called HoeKey that performs the same functionality my VB program does and it idles around 250K. Obviously not written in VB! I may shelf min and use that one.