WinXp-Sp2 and VisStudio-2005 and open-source qt-4.3.2

I'm wrestling with getting smaller executables with static linking. I was able to get the tutorial/t1.ex reduced from about 4.0mb to 2.9mb with lots of:
configure -static -release -no-exceptions .... -no-stl etc. (about 20 of them)

After the confirmation of using GPL and before the compilation starts, there are a bunch of lines that confirm which options for configure.exe are in effect. There are references to:
minimal-config
small-config
medium-config
large-config
full-config
build-all

I am curious what happens with minimal-config, but I don't see any way of specifying this. I tried:
configure -loadconfig minimal-config
but that didn't seem to make any difference (at least as far as the confirmation that happens when configure.exe gets started after the confirmation of acception GPL).

Is there an argument to configure.exe to have it do a "minimal-config"?

configure -no-large-config caused an error statement about unknown option.

configure -disable-large-config was accepted, but didn't seem to do anything.

Can this be accomplished some other way?

Thanks!