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To: Barbara Barry who wrote (21599)	7/14/1998 6:40:00 PM
From: William H Huebl	Respond to of 94695

BB, The following takes a few minutes to do... however, the PC compression process may take an hour or so. You can stop it at any time and you will still have part of your disk compressed... 1. When you bring up your PC and it is in desktop mode, you should have the icon for disks showing. Double-click on it to open it up. 2. You should have a window open with the different disks like A: C: maybe G: if you have a CD rom reader. Single click on your C: drive icon. It should highlight. 3. At the top of the window, you should have various icons... double click on properties. 4. You should bring up a screen showing 3 or 4 tabs at the top. Click on compression. 5. You should see a very colorful pie and a spreadsheet showing how your drive is compressed. There is a button near the bottom called Run Agent. Click on that. 6. The next screen will have a Settings button and click on that. 7. For question 1, click the last one so that you only ultra pack those files not used in (10) (enter 10 in the box) days. 8. For question 2, click on the first one which is good compression and good performance for HiPacking the rest of your files. 9. Then click on the lower box which says to save these settings as default settings. NOTE: the settings I have given you above MAY ALREADY BE IN PLACE... if they are, then that is okay, you don't have to do anything about it. 10. Click on Okay and that will bring you back to the compression screen... click on start. Now here is a trick I learned... if you have a timeout feature on your system, you can inhibit it for 5 - 15 minutes (there may be a better way but I don't know how) by putting the arrow you control by your mouse on the paper in the vice icon. Somehow, the system thinks you are still there and want turn off your computer for much longer. (Mine turns off automatically after about 5 monutes of no action). Another thing... come back to the computer every 15 minutes or so and move the arrow around a bit... that seems to fool the computer further... Once it has finished, you can exit out. But I suspect you will have gained at LEAST 1/2 of the total size of your disk... free! I have a 2 gig disk which is partitioned into 2 logical drives... c: and d: and I have probably close to 4 gigs available to me because of the compression process. Good luck and I know you will ask if you have any further questions... BEFORE you try it. And you can go all the way through the process I have give up to the point where you press START... and back out with no problem... so you may want to go through a trial run before pressing START. Bill