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Utility for freeing more disk space? (NOT file-compression!!)

Mike Ross mross at outland.jsc.nasa.gov
Mon Feb 17 15:59:49 EST 1997


> > I heard something about a utility that can free up a lot of wasted
> > disk space (frees space allocated to but not used files i think (but
> > i'm not sure))... BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THE $#@% IT WAS!!  Anybody
> > got an idea?  Please email me at myopsis at juno.com --- I've got about
> > 500MB wasted by file allocations right now... if that program will
> > free it up i would be grateful.....
> >
> >                 Thanks
> 
> Perhaps Partition Magic is what you're thinking about.  You can set
> multiple partitions and reduce the cluster size which then cuts down on
> the amount of slack (wasted space) you have on your drive.
> --
> Regards
> 
> Ron Badour
> San Antonio, Texas

There's also a shareware program called MoreSpace95.  It looks for file
hogs and duplicate files, and files not accessed in a long time.  I
found it at 

http://www.windows95.com/

in the utilities area.  A great site for shareware downloads!  Good
luck.

-mike


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