I found that I can get the same small resource DLLs when I disable the option to Copy all resources" but then the program will not run because it could not find its forms and other resources (also see this question on StackOverflow: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/10549976/9784">http://stackoverflow.com/q/10549976/9784</a> - it took me quite a while to figure out what was really going on).