Why is my release exe 32 kb with only 14 lines of code?

[Craisins]

#include < windows.h >
#include < string >
using namespace std;

void alert( const string& title, const string& message ) 
{
	MessageBox( NULL, message.c_str(), title.c_str(), MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION );
}

int WINAPI WinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nShowCmd ) 
{
	alert("Okay", "Working!");
	return 0;
}

I just downgraded from MSVC++2008, which had my release exe 33kb with around 1000 or more lines of code, Im trying to learn how to use MSVC++6.0 and its giving me such a hard time with everything, I chose active config to release and hit build, and the exe in the folder is 32 kb with only this.

Edit: Apparently 2008 strips unused functions and discards code and things from header files, any way to do this in 2006? Should I try mingw for stripping?