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Robert Turnbull <[log in to unmask]>
Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:59:02 -0500
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At 12:03 AM 2/23/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I then reran the program and Defraged and
>when I reached 100% my files had "expanded" an extra 2 GBs. I have ran
>scandisk from both Windows 98 and from DOS to no avail as well as running my
>Norton Antivirus but I am not gaining the space back. Does anyone
>have any ideas?
>         I am running Windows 98 on a Pentium II 333 with 96 MB Ram
>with a 8 GB hardrive.

You can boot to DOS and type            scanreg /fix
and when that process has completed, you can type
scanreg /opt
This should shrink your registry to the minimum.

Regards


Robert Turnbull, Toronto, Canada

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