"BTW, your batch file with FC.EXE would not lessen the network traffic since the bytes needed for a file compare is the same as if you just ran it from the DC. The way some people manage versioning is to calculate and store the CRC of the seed copy and then check the CRC on just the local copy. "

Haha, I love it. How can you easily compare the CRC of both files with tools included in a standard build of windows?

I like the Makexe idea, the executable could trim uneeded code from the kix32 exeutable and turn out to be smaller than the original kix32.exe !