On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 07:53:29 -0600, Chris Schumann wrote:
>You do seem to have an obsession about clearing disk space. Most of us using
>Windows have just caved in and bought larger hard drives.
I have 2 other OS on other partitions. Not so simple to buy a larger drive.
(I don't regularly use Windows but my old drive with OS/2 failed so I am
using W2K temporarily til I get OS/2 back up and running; using this walk on
the dark side to hone my skills as MIS manager for my 3 daughters,
wife, friends etc who all are MS victims.)
>But, to the point: The download for this utility from IBM is only 830K, so
>it's hard to imagine it takes 12.9MB of anything.
Yes I see this. Add/Remove Programs reports 12.9 mb of HD space
but (if you click the link) demurs with a note that this may be wrong :)
(Then again, it's hard to
>believe that Firefox takes 31MB RAM and Outlook takes 40, but they do.)
>Maybe your version got corrupted. I'd suggest you remove it and re-install
>to see if it takes less space.
Yes!
Jeffrey Race
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