Hi Patti, In normal circumstances, I would agree with you, it will take up a great deal of room on your hard drive if you have 869 versions of a program on your computer, especially if these extra versions aren't needed.
There are some things you might want to consider. First, is how much room on your hard drive you currently have. I'm assuming you have at least a 10 gigabyte hard drive and if you check, you'll find that the Jaws 510 folder on your hard drive has little more than 10 megabytes. Not very much when you consider that 1000 megabytes equals 1 gigabyte. I could bore you with the explanation of the actual size of a megabyte, gigabyte and kilobyte, but I think you get the point. With 10000 megabytes on your hard drive, taking up 10 isn't that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. Having said that, if you have 8 or nine previous versions of Jaws sitting on your hard drive, this could get redundant and there is absolutely no need for it. In fact, I would be surprised that your Jaws is functioning properly without some bugs in that case. This leads me to my second point. As Jaws sits on your "C" drive, having previous versions of it sitting on your drive could become serious enough to warrant deleting them. If Jaws sat in any other drive besides the "C" drive, than it wouldn't be an issue, but because a great number of the programs on your computer use the "C" drive as temporary storage and should you get long in the tooth, so to speak, keeping music files, audio books and the like on your hard drive, than this temporary storage space can become a premium consideration. Out of a 40 gigabyte hard drive on my laptop, which is partitioned in half into two drives, I have less than 8 gigabytes left on it. Yes, I do have a great deal of music on it, and some audio books, I mean let's face it, some meetings can become rather tiresome, and while using a pair of headphones with my laptop, I can just bring up some music while the person speaking just drones on and on, oblivious to the fact that I don't give a rat's posterior what he's saying...LOL In any case, eventually, you will get an error message that you have no space left on your hard drive, and that you should please clear up some space so that some programs can function. At this point, you will have no other choice but to start removing these previous versions of Jaws, and that's when you have to worry about it. One thing I should mention... If you do have multiple versions of Jaws on your computer, or at least files belonging to previous versions of Jaws, you might be interested in knowing that the further back you go in versions, the smaller the space these folders take up. For example, I am running Jaws 7, but as I said in my previous post, I have a Jaws 5.1 folder on my hard drive. I also have Jaws 5.0 on my hard drive also. While Jaws 510 only takes up 7 megabytes, the Jaws 50 folder only takes up about 800 kilobytes, so as you can see, it isn't taking up that much room. At some point, I will get that error message telling me to clear up some crap on my drive, but until then, I won't have to worry if I've got that little bit of research I need at any given time. I hope I haven't completely bored the list with this explanation. Quite frankly, I've been in a talkative mood lately and what a great forum for it. Hope you don't mind David. Victor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
