Bob,
I've never had a Norton product on this machine. What do you mean by
"running"? Do you mean those programs running on the system all the time,
or all the software on the machine? I hadn't thought of this yet, but it
does make sense that the clusters that the defragger cannot move are those
programs that are running while the defragger is operating.
I only have 4 that are supposed to run all the time (I have disabled 3 of
them with Registry hacks); they include:
MS Office "Findfast" <disabled>
MS Office "OSA" <disabled>
Visioneer Paperport "Flatbed" (scanner software autolaunch) <disabled>
Windows Printing System (Windows95 driver/print manager for Canon printer)
<running>
I think I'll try killing the Printing System.
Thanks for the tip (still open for more).
Jeremy
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Recoverable disk space
>
> Jeremy
>
> If I recall correctly the files at the end of the disk are put there
> by certain programs. I'm not sure but I think it's things like Norton
> Commander and similar progs. If anybody can correct me or shed more
> light on this, please do.
>
> What programs are you running? If you can kill these maybe you can
> delete
> those pesky files. You can always fire them up again after you get
> Linux installed. I've got win95 and I stripped all non-essentials
> before I installed Mandrake. The defrag/partitioning went smoothly.
>
> Bob Jackson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
