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Re: pre-installation question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Rezk)
Wed Nov 6 21:40:51 1996

From: Charles Rezk <rezk@morse.math.nwu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 20:38:47 -0600 (CST)
Cc: rezk@math.nwu.edu (Charles Rezk)
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> You can turn off the swap file in Win95, somewhere in control panel, I
> recall.  You will then have to run defrag from "safe mode"
> 
> You will also have to turn off any hidden or read only attributes on any
> files on the drive you are going to defragment or the file will not be
> touched.

Are you sure this is right?  I just tried this; defrag refuses to move
these things, even with all the attributes turned off.  

Suppose I were to just delete the swap file (from safe mode).  Will
Windows know to create a new one when I reboot?

I hate MS Windows,
Charles Rezk 


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