Was not concerned about space on the C drive until I partitioned
it and installed Mandrake's Linux, and yes the trash can is kept very
clean. Still not critical at 4 gigs available, just trying to keep the
drive clean of useless files.
Cy
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:31:33 -0500 "bobmclellan"
<bobmclellan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> You are almost right. Starting with WinMe Windows put in effect an
> automatic backup protection for your vital system files so that if
> anything happened you could run the restore and go back to before the
> problem. WinMe
> as a default kept 5 backup copies though you can set it to keep
> more.
>
> If you are running a WinMe machine then 612 MB should not be very
> much of your hdd. That is just a little over one gig and you should
have 20
> to 30 gig. For the protection, well worth it. If you are worried
about
> hdd space you might look at your trash can (if you haven't already!).
> Typically, it
> is set up to use 10 percent of your hdd. I usually cut this down to
> a maximum of 4 percent down to 1 percent.
>
> Bob McLellan
> ************