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win386.swp
Name: Timothy Cone Date: October 20, 1999 at 17:46:15 Pacific
Comment:
My PC originally had win 3.11 and has been upgraded to win 95 and 98. When I run Microsoft Word 97, this file grows until I run out of space on C drive - 110MB. Word then chokes and I can't save the file. This only happens with Word...Excel is ok. I have re-installed Office, but it didn't help. Any ideas?
Name: sara Date: October 20, 1999 at 17:55:03 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like your not only saving your document but also all older versions of it, at least that was the problem for me ones. Check at archive/versions on the document that grows. (I think it's labeled archive in the english version, same place as you save and quit and all that.)
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Response Number 2
Name: ergmiester Date: October 20, 1999 at 17:55:39 Pacific
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The hard drive sounds too small to run win 98 efficently . At least you need more free space. How big is the hard drive and ram?
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Response Number 3
Name: ironman28 Date: October 20, 1999 at 19:27:15 Pacific
Reply:
this file is windows swap file you can set to a fixed size also why are you runnig a win98 on a machine that used to run win3.1 ,why
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Response Number 4
Name: Timothy Cone Date: October 21, 1999 at 11:06:03 Pacific
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The HD on my PC is ~500MB, and has about ~110MB free. It's a P60, and has 48MB of ram. I have added a 5.1GB drive that is partitioned as a 2.1GB D,E and 900MB F. Should I set the swap level to a max size, or re-format to use a larger drive as C? I can't get much more room out of C, win 98 takes a large portion of the 400MB used.
Summary: I have a Win98SE computer with 64 MB of RAM. A while back, I set my virtual memory to 128 MB for both MIN and MAX. I don't do much multi-tasking and I never play video games. Everything runs very smo...
Summary: I am concerned about information left on my hard drive in the WIN386.SWP file. I use Washee, Spider, and finally Eraser 5.6. But Eraser 5.6 doesn't wipe the WIN386.SWP file so all that info is still...
Summary: Do NOT delete it. It is used by win 95 for increase memory,this is a swap file. win 95 uses extra space on the HD when needed by the system (ex. if you use more programs windows may need more memory) ...
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