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Re: pre-installation question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Hultquist)
Wed Nov 6 21:50:51 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 1996 20:38:47 CST."
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 19:49:48 -0700
From: Steve Hultquist <ssh@wwsi.com>
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>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Rezk <rezk@morse.math.nwu.edu> writes:
>> 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.
Charles> Are you sure this is right? I just tried this; defrag refuses
Charles> to move these things, even with all the attributes turned off.
Norton defrag will move it. I don't know about Windows defrag.
Charles> Suppose I were to just delete the swap file (from safe mode).
Charles> Will Windows know to create a new one when I reboot?
Usually, but, watch out!
Charles> I hate MS Windows, Charles Rezk
No comment...
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