24th March 1997

Hey--have you compacted your Microsoft Internet Mail folders lately? Go to File | Folder | Compact | All Folders. What? Didn't know that function existed before now? Ten to one says you reclaim more than a Meg worth of space.

I haven't said this in a while, but the tip really helped Lockergnome subscribers when I posted it, so I'll say it again: it is safe to delete *.gid AND *.fts files from yr hard drive. They are created when a help file is opened and a search is made within it (respectively). I had e-mails saying that some people had reclaimed up to *10* Meg worth of hard drive space after deleting these files. Just do it.

For those of you thinking that you can completely get rid of the AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS (as I noted in the last software issue), you might want to rethink that strategy. If you've got an anti-virus proggie which TSRs from DOS, you might want to keep those startup files around. :)