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- Thank you for purchasing Quarterdeck's CleanSweep 95! This file
- includes tips and information to help you get the most out of the
- package, a listing of some known problems, and last-minute corrections
- that did not make it into the manual. We recommend that you print this
- file and keep it with your printed documentation for future reference.
-
- Table of Contents
- =================
-
- Info and Tips
- What's Coming for CleanSweep?
- Contacting Quarterdeck
-
- Info and Tips
- =============
-
- CleanSweep and Slack Space
-
- When CleanSweep displays the amount of disk space that will be saved by
- deleting programs or files, it will often note that more disk space will
- be saved than the files seem to occupy. This is a result of the scheme
- that is used to store files on a disk. A physical hard drive contains
- one or more "partitions". Each partition is subdivided into "clusters",
- whose size is largely dependent on the size of the partition; sizes of
- 4K to 32K are common. Each file on your hard drive is stored in one or
- more clusters. Regardless of how much of the cluster is used, the whole
- cluster is allocated to the file; thus a one-byte file might take 8K of
- storage space on your hard drive. A file (or the last portion of it)
- rarely fills a cluster exactly; instead, it is common for many clusters
- to contain "slack" space_the difference between the size of the cluster
- and the amount of space that a file is using. A great deal of space may
- be reclaimed from your hard drive by deleting a large number of files,
- even if the files themselves are relatively small.
-
- Stacker 4.0 contains technology that dramatically reduces the amount of
- slack space on your hard drive. CleanSweep's calculations may not take
- Stacker's savings into account.
-
-
- CleanSweep's View Option
-
- Currently, CleanSweep's View option support is limited to those viewers
- supplied by Windows 95 itself. Some Windows installation options do not
- install all of these viewers by default. When you try to view a file for
- which your Windows viewer is not yet installed, CleanSweep will notify
- you and, at your option, lead you through the process of installing the
- complete set of Windows viewers. The following file formats are
- supported by the Windows QuickView feature:
-
- Ami Pro; ASCII; Bitmaps, Cursors, and Icons; CorelDraw 2.x-5.x;
- Micrografx .DRW; Programs (.EXE, .DLL, and .COM); Freelance Graphics for
- Windows; Microsoft Multiplan 4.x; Microsoft Word (all versions through
- 7.0, including DOS and Windows); Microsoft Write; Microsoft PowerPoint;
- Quattro and Quattro Pro (for both DOS and Windows); Rich Text Format
- (RTF); WordPad; Lotus 1-2-3 1.x-5.x (for both DOS and Windows) Lotus
- Symphony 1.0; VP-Planner; Mosaic Twin; Generic WKS format; MS Works
- (spreadsheets, database, and wordprocessing for both DOS and Windows);
- Windows Meta File (.WMF); Microsoft Word for Macintosh (4.x, 5.x);
- WordPerfect 4.x-6.x (for both DOS and Windows); Microsoft Excel 3.x-5.x;
- Microsoft Excel Charts 2.x-4.x; and Hex.
-
- Oddly, Windows 95 provides no viewers for .ZIP and other forms of
- compressed files, nor for .GIF, .TIF, or .PCX graphics files; nor for
- .DBF or other database files. Future versions of CleanSweep are expected
- to be much less dependent on Windows' viewers.
-
-
- Installation Monitor
-
- The Installation Monitor provides an "append" feature, so that you can
- link and log the installation of two programs that might not be
- installed at the same time. For example, you might install a database
- program, and later install a program to produce specialized reports from
- that database. When you monitor the installation of the reporting
- program, you might like to use the Append feature so that it's easy to
- uninstall both programs together if you wish. You may still use
- CleanSweep's standard methods to uninstall one program at a time.
-
- The Installation Monitor is very helpful to CleanSweep's Delete and Move
- functions. In particular, CleanSweep requires the assistance of the
- Installation Monitor to modify correctly the location of files listed in
- the Windows Registry.
-
-
- File Usage Monitor
-
- When you start CleanSweep, the File Usage Monitor will alert you if
- there are files that have been unused for the period of time you choose
- in Options / Configure CleanSweep / Usage Monitor / Alert. The File
- Usage Monitor icon, in the lower right corner of the screen, will also
- flash if you have checked the "Alert if any file is unused for <number>
- days" option.
-
- If you change your system's internal clock to a date earlier than the
- current date, CleanSweep's File Usage Monitor will not adjust its tables
- of files to reflect the change. For example, a file that is listed
- as being unused for 10 days will continue to be listed as such even if
- you adjust your system's date to some point 10 days in the past.
-
-
- Uninstall Wizard
-
- In the CleanSweep manual, the section on the Uninstall Wizard suggests
- that every folder on your system is displayed. In fact, by default,
- every folder on the Windows 95 Start Menu is displayed. Other folders
- can be found by running the Uninstall Wizard; then clicking Find, and
- then Browse. From this screen, you are able to navigate up and down
- through the folders on your hard drive.
-
-
- CleanSweep's File Finders
-
- By default, CleanSweep will search local hard drives with its File
- Finders. You may choose to include floppy drives, network drives, or
- removable drives in the search. CD-ROM drives may also be included in
- the Duplicate File Finder.
-
- Files created during the CleanSweep session will often not be displayed
- in various CleanSweep Finders until you close CleanSweep and start it
- again.
-
-
- Unused File Type Finder, Custom Selection
-
- You may specify not only a file extension but also wildcards in the
- Unused File Type Finder Custom Selection option. For example, if you
- specify
-
- 92*.WK1
-
- as the File Pattern, each instance of your Lotus 2.x worksheet files
- beginning with 92 will be found on your hard drive. This is a very
- useful file management feature, in fact.
-
- You must specify a file mask. Currently you may not precede this
- filemask with a path. For example, C:\WINDOWS\*.DLL is not supported,
- but C*.DLL is.
-
-
- Orphan File Finder
-
- According to CleanSweep, an orphan file is a program that is not
- on the Start menu or one of its submenus, and that does not reside in
- the same folder as a file that is on the Start menu or one of its
- submenus.
-
-
- View Savings Report
-
- CleanSweep's View Savings Report is intended to give a general overview
- of CleanSweep's usefulness, rather than to detail every action on your
- hard drive. When you delete a program or file and back it up, CleanSweep
- will calculate the space saved as the amount of space taken by the
- uninstalled components, minus the size of the backup, and will add this
- to the Savings log. However, when you delete the backup, CleanSweep will
- not add this figure to the savings log. Similarly, if you choose to
- restore the component, CleanSweep will not subtract the original savings
- from the savings log.
-
- If you delete a file from a source drive and back it up to a different
- target drive, the log will reflect the savings on the source, and will
- not account for size of the backup on the target. (In many cases, the
- target will be a floppy drive.)
-
-
- General Notes
-
- CleanSweep will not permit you to delete files that are currently in use.
-
- On a network, Windows 95 permits you to attach to and access drives at
- any time. CleanSweep will recognize only those drives to which you were
- attached before you start the program.
-
- The network decoy feature will not run if a copy of CleanSweep is
- already running.
-
- CleanSweep's Installation Monitor may have difficulty logging the
- installation of the Microsoft Plus Pack and other system-level
- software that reboots the machine before the installation process
- is complete. Such software does not install itself in the same
- way that applications do. We recommend extra care in uninstalling
- these packages.
-
-
- What's Coming for CleanSweep?
- =============================
-
- The following features are in the planning stages for future
- maintenance releases of CleanSweep:
-
- - Windows Registry editor
- - viewers for many more file formats
-
- Quarterdeck is continuously improving its products, and releases
- free maintenance updates reasonably frequently.
-
-
- Contacting Quarterdeck
- ======================
-
- Visit the Quarterdeck forum on CompuServe (GO QUARTERDECK), or
- Quarterdeck's World Wide Web site (http://www.qdeck.co.uk/). Update news
- and patches, if any, will be available there.
-
- Those using more traditional means of communication should contact:
-
- Quarterdeck International Ltd
- BIM House, Crofton Terrace
- Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
- Ireland.
-
- (01245) 496699 (Customer Service)
- (01245) 494940 (Technical Support)
-
-