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- FreeSpace - Version 1.03 (Evaluation)
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- This 30-day trial version is freely available. After thirty days if you
- like the program you can purchase the shareware version from the Mijenix
- Corporation (http://www.mijenix.com/).
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- Welcome to FreeSpace!
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- A. Introduction
- B. FreeSpace Components
- C. Uninstalling FreeSpace
- D. Feedback and Support
- E. Acknowledgment
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- A. Introduction
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- FreeSpace is an innovative utility that lets you recover precious disk space
- without having to uninstall any program or delete files. FreeSpace
- accomplishes this by optimizing the data stored on your disks (it
- compresses files). The interesting aspect of the program is that it lets you
- determine what should be compressed and occupy a minimum of disk
- space and what should stay the way it currently is. Files and programs,
- which are compressed with FreeSpace, appear and work exactly the same
- as if they were not compressed.
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- FreeSpace works in Windows 95/98 (including OSR2 and FAT32
- partitions) and NT 4.0 on NTFS partitions only. FreeSpace does not
- currently support native DOS (boot into DOS). However, DOS in
- Windows is supported.
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- The hardware requirements for FreeSpace are; any personal computer capable of
- running Microsoft Windows, 8MB of RAM (Windows 95/98), 16MB of RAM (Windows
- NT 4.0), 3MB of free disk space.
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- B. FreeSpace Components
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- After running the FreeSpace SETUP program, you'll find shortcuts to the
- FreeSpace components in the FreeSpace 1.0 group in your Start menu.
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- 1. The main component of FreeSpace is a driver that is loaded when
- Windows starts. This driver allows compressed files to be displayed
- and accessed as if they were not compressed. This driver is only
- loaded in Windows 95/98. Under Windows NT 4.0, FreeSpace uses
- the native compression capabilities of the NTFS file system.
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- 2. The FreeSpace Manager includes the QuickSpace Wizard,
- Compression Wizard, Decompression Wizard, FreeSpace Settings,
- FreeSpace Disk Checkup, and EasyUpdate.
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- 3. The Compression Wizard helps you find files and folders on your
- system which are excellent candidates for compression either because
- they have not been accessed for a long time, or because they compress
- extremely well, or because they will save you a lot of space if
- compressed.
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- 4. The Decompression Wizard helps you find compressed items on your
- system and lets you uncompress them.
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- 5. The FreeSpace Analyzer lets you analyze your drives and displays
- folder size information. It is a great tool to help you better understand
- what components are taking a lot of space on your system and to find
- out what space they would occupy if compressed.
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- 6. FreeSpace also provides context menus (Compress and Decompress)
- which let you compress or uncompress files and folders you select in
- Explorer. Another context menu (Folder Checkup) lets you perform a
- checkup of the current folder to verify that all the compressed items
- are in good shape (Windows95 only). Finally, you'll also find a menu
- (Convert Zip to FreeSpace) which lets you convert a Zip archive into a
- FreeSpace compressed folder.
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- 7. The Properties dialog of files and folders has an additional tab labeled
- FreeSpace that displays statistics about the selected files and folders.
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- C. Uninstalling FreeSpace
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- If FreeSpace is incompatible with something on your system or if you wish
- to uninstall FreeSpace for some other reason, you can run the included
- Uninstall program. You can do this from the "Add/Remove Programs"
- control panel applet or by running the "Uninstall FreeSpace" program from
- the FreeSpace group in the Start Menu.
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- IMPORTANT: If while using FreeSpace you have compressed some files
- or folders, you may want to uncompress them, since you will not have
- access to them without FreeSpace running.
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- D. Support
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- Please let us know if you experience any problem with FreeSpace, we will
- promptly help you. We are also interested in the ideas you may have about
- new features or any part of the program that could be improved. Thank
- you.
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- Mijenix Corporation Tel : (303) 245-8000
- 3030 Sterling Circle Fax: (303) 245-8111
- Boulder CO 80301 - USA Email: support@mijenix.com
- Web: http://www.mijenix.com
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- E. Acknowledgment
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- FreeSpace incorporates portions of the compression code from
- the Info-ZIP group. There are no extra charges or costs due to
- the use of this code, and the original compression sources are
- freely available from http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ or
- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ on the Internet.
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- 19 August 1998
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