From: John Smith (ciscoios12_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 06 2001 - 23:16:13 EDT
I think that the best solution here is to upgrade
the HD. Even laptop drives are pretty cheap now. 20gig
IBM drives are around $150 US. Smaller ones are of
course less. Other things may have a higher priority
though...
--- Doug Martell <doug_at_laptop-laidback.com> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I have a i1452 Thinkpad / win98 / with a 4.5 Gig
> drive split into C: of
> 2 Gigs and D: having the remaining 2.5 Gigs. I have
> tried to keep at
> least 100 Megs of free space on the C drive to keep
> the system from
> bogging down. Over the last several months its been
> shrinking in spite
> of my cleanup attempts ... to the point that there
> is only 38 Megs
> available post startup. I've noticed there is a
> very sizable win386.swp
> file which is growing in size. About a month ago it
> was around 49 Megs
> and today it's at 70 Megs.
>
> Does this sound like its could be virus related and
> if so what should I
> do to salvage the thinkpad?
>
> Is there a way to reduce the size of this swp file
> without compromising
> the stability or ability of the computer?
>
>
> Doug - Laidback We "R" Inc.
>
>
>
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