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>    I'm running Win95 with 8 megs of Ram on a 850 meg hard drive. Over the
> past few days I have noticed that I'm using 300 megs of hard drive space
> when in reality I've only got 250 megs worth of programs. So I panicked
> and my friend told me it's the virtual memory that's using 50 megs worth
> of hard drive space.
> Anyone out there knows how to fix this problem/concern?
Yes, go into the ControlPanel and change your virtual memory setting.
Windows sets up a temporary swap file.  The size is based upon the ammount of
free spance you have left.
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I'd say this has nothing to do with virtual memory, but rather with the fact
that the FAT file system sucks.  For 850MB, even a 2 byte file takes up
16,384 bytes.  VBBS is really bad about this, since it had many 1, 2, 3, 4,
and 5 byte files everywhere..  You can actually have only 600 bytes of files,
actually taking 1 meg of disk space.  The easy cure to this is either move on
to a better file system (or OS), or seperate a little 30-40 meg partition for
vbbs's and other small little files so they would take up 1,024 bytes each,
not 16,384.

bk
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