1. A networked object delivery system for a personal computing device comprising: a network; a personal computing device at least part time coupled to said network, said personal computing device being capable of locally operating on a document with at least one application module which is a subset of a plurality of related application modules, wherein said personal computing device includes a base operating system and read/write memory at least partially storing said requested document and said at least one application module, wherein said read/write memory stores a at least two application modules transmitted by said service agent server which are used to perform said received action on said document, wherein said at least two application modules are less that all of said plurality of related application modules, wherein at least one of said plurality of application modules is an operating system module; and a service agent server at least part time coupled to said network and capable of bi-directional communication with said personal computing device, said service agent server transmitting said at least one application module but less than all of said plurality of related application modules to said personal computing device over said network in response to a received action specified by said personal computing device.