Reduce windows executable size

Question

I have a C++/MFC app on windows - dynamically linked it\'s only 60kb static it\'s > 3Mb.
It is a being distributed to customers by email and so needs to be as small as p

Answer 1

I'm not sure how to strip the executable, but another thought is to compress it, for example using upx, which will decompress it and run it in place... Does that reduce the size enough for you?